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Four (]liocesan schools plan middl~e school components Sister Micha.elinda Plante, RSM, associate superintendent of diocesan schools, has announced plans for a new venture in middle school education.

She said that during the past academic year 12 diocesan schools have studied the 4;oncept of a middle school component within an elementary school. They have werked with representatives of Taunton Catholk Middle School, . at present the only such diocesan school, and with ':he New England League of Middle Schools and have used discussions and readings to familiarize themselves with middle school procedures.

This fall SS. Peter and Paul, St. Anne, St. Stanislaus and St. Jean Baptiste schools, all in Fall River, will introduce middle school teaching modes in grades 6 through 8.

Involved will be changes in discipline, team structures and social interactions designed to meet the unique needs of this age group.

The New England League has listed basic assumptions that should be incorporated in middle school planning. They include the principle that all students are capable of learning and should be held to high expectations.

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The annual Religious Education Day for diocesan catechists will be held Sept. 25 at St. Julie Billiart Church and Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth.

Registration opens at 8 a.m. in the church, followed by a 9 a.m. liturgy celebrated by Bishop'Sean O'Malley and keynote address on the theme"Generous Beyond Measure" by Dr. Thomas Groome, professor of theology and religious education at Boston College.

Three workshop sessions and lunch will be held between II a.m. and 3:05 p.m. in the school.

Workshop topics and presenters are as follows. .

ing Catechesis and Creativity for an Hour, Sister Ann Boland, St. John Evangelist parish, Attleboro. Methodology, Michaela Burke, Sadlier consultant.

Dysfunctional Families, Rev. Joseph Costa, St. Vincent's Home, Fall River.

This Is Holy Ground, Sister Mary Dumond, CP, St. Anne's School, Fall River.

Creative Activities, Anne T. Gauthier, religious education coordinator. Health Care Reform: No Such Thing without the Common Good, Rev. Mark Hession, St. Mary's parish, New Bedford. Is It Still A Sin'!, Rev. Douglas Sousa, Espirito Santo parish, Fall River. Preparing Young Peoplefor the Big Decisions, Sister Ann P. Stankiewicz, OP, Providence College. Spirituality and Creativity for the Catechist, Irene Murphy, Benziger Publishing.

Confirmation Retreats, 'Christopher Tanguay, Office for Youth Ministry.

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West Falmouth man cousi][1 of sainthood candidate With eNS reports

Father Samuel Mazzuchelli, a 19th-century Dominican missionary who worked among settlers and Indians in the American Midwest, has taken a step towards sainthood. Last July 6 Pope John Paul II approved a decree declaring that he manifested heroic virtue. The next step would be beatification, which would follow certification of a miracle attributed to his intercessIOn.

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Msgr. Annunziato dies at age 63 Msgr. Armando A. Annunziato, VF, died Aug. 31 after a long illness. The pastor of St. Mary's parish, Mansfield, lay in state at his church yesterday. His funeral Mass takes place at II this morning with Bishop Sean O'Malley as principal celebrant.

Among concelebrants will be Msgr. Annunziato's brother, Father Michael Annunziato, SS.Ce., pastor of Sacred Heart parish, Edinburg, Tex. A cousin, Rev. Lucio B. Phillipino, pastor of Immaculate Conception parish, North Easton, will be homilist.

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Father MazlUchelli was a "third or fourth cousin" of Joseph Mazzucchelli of West Falmouth, who is a member ofSt. Elizabeth Seton parish, North Falmouth. The potential saint has but one "c" in his name, while his West Falmouth relative has 2; but the Cape man said that his own branch of the family added a "c" over the years.

"They were so poor they needed everything they could get," he explained.

Joseph Mazzucchelli said that Father Mazzuchelli was known as a builder of the West and was on friendly terms with the U.S. presidents of his time. He founded the Dominican Sisters of the Sinsinawa Congregation of the Most Holy Rosary, a 1,017-member community headquartered in Sinsinawa, Wisc., helped design several public buildings in Iowa, including the old state capitol, built 'over 20 churches, including the first church in Wisconsin, and himself constructed a small house in Benton, Mich., where he died in 1864. It was restored and was

A 19th-CENTURY tintype of Father Mazzuchelli (top); bottom, the house in Benton, Wise., which he built and in which he died. (Mazzuchelli Bulletin photos)

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"]Labor priest" exemplifies social justice tradition

WASHINGTON (CNS)-Bishop John H. Ricard has urged U.S. Catholics observing Labor Day to take up the challenge of Msgr.

George G. Higgins and "recommit ourselves to the Catholic tradition of defending the dignity and rights of workers."

Msgr. Higgins. - known for half a century simply as "the labor priest" - is "a' symbol of what is best in our s<?cial justice tradition," said Bishop Ricard, an auxiliary of Baltimore and chairman of the U.S. Catholic Conference Domestic Policy Committee.

Writing the USCe's annual Labor Day statement on behalf of the committee,- Bishop Ricard limited his comments to a brief introduction and conclusion. He filled out the body of the statement with excerpts from Msgr. Higgins' own reflections on the church and the labor movement today.

Among quotes :from Msgr. Higgins were: - A caB to the labor movement to focus its efforts on organizing low-paid female ang immigrant workers: "Without female and im-

migrant workers, the labor movement has no future in this country."

- A critique of the "many upwardly mobile Catholics" who have abandoned the worker solidarity ideals of their parents and grandparents and have come to consider unions passe: "Their own relative affluence has blinded them to the fact that, like their immigrant forebears, millions of today's workers struggle to maintain a minimum standard of living."

- His blunt condemnation of Catholic institutions that obstruct organizing by their own workers: "Church leaders and administrators of church-related institutions must unequivocally recognize the right of their employees to organize.... This is simply another way of saying, in the words of the Synod of Bishops, that 'anyone who ventures to speak to people about justice must first be just in their eyes,''' Msgr. Higgins, 77, who was ordained a priest in 1940, joined the U.S. bishops' Social Action Department in 1944 and headed it .fromI954.to 1972.. ln 1972 he was

made secretary for research - a post that essentiaBy let him set his own agenda until his retirement from the U.S. Catholic Conference in 1980. Since then he has been an adjunct lecturer in theology at The Catholic University of America.

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Higgins wrote the annual Labor there. 'Twenty years; she said. I Day statements of the bishops. asked if she would mind tellingne "For more than half a century," how much she earned. 'Minimum Bishop Ricard wrote, "Msgr. Hig- wage' was her reply. gins has been the bridge between "I am often asked: Why are the church and the labor move- unions needed in this day and age? ment and a' pre-eminent analyst People should not ask me. n ey and articulator of Catholic social should ask the maid af Disneyland teaching. In the conference and and other low-wage workers."

Also quoted are Msgr. Higgins' across the country, he has challenged our church to take our comments on the paradox thOlt, despite the Second Vatican COl.nsocial tradition seriously," The reflections by Msgr. Hig- cil's emphasis on the role of 1he gins that Bishop Ricard repro- laity in the world, Catholic just ce duced as part of the 1993 Labor and peace work seems to ha ve Day statement were excerpted become more institutionalized or from "Organized Labor and the "churchy" now than it was before Church: Reflections of a Labor .the council.

Priest," which Msgr. Higgins co"Not everyone will agree w th wrote with religion writer William Msgr. Higgins' analysis or agend,l," Bole. The book was published ear- Bishop Ricard said, "but no seric us lier this year by Paulist Press. student of the Catholic social t'aIn one of the reflections quoted dition can dismiss it.. .. It is still c ur

by Bishop Ricard, Msgr. Higgins task to insure that people can find recalled a stay at a Disneyland decent work, that the rights and hotel during a two-week confer- dignity of workers are respected, ence in California. that workers are not 'replaced' ror "I got to know some ofthe hotel exercising their rights, that cur workers, including the woman who church practices what'.it preact .es cleaned my room," he wrote. "I on participation and econonlic asked her how long she had worked justice."

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National Family Ministry conference to be held in Providence

Catholic journalist covers Balkan war SPRINGFIELD, III. (CNS) Sherry Ricchiardi was interviewing a United Nations' soldier on a Sarajevo airport runway when a 'barrage of sniper fire opened.

"I didn't duck," recalled Ms. Ricchiardi. "[The soldier] knocked me down and shielded me. I had the tape recorder going, and you can hear the gunfire. I credit him with saving my life."

In another episode, the vehicle she was traveling in was pinned by mortar fire. A Croatian soldier led her party to a bombed-out farmhouse for shelter. When she asked THESE 1937 graduates of Sacred Heart School, Fall the soldier why he would risk his River, collaborate in publication of "The Stars and Stripes," life to save them, he told her, the nation's weekly newspaper for veterans. From left, John "Journalists are worth a thousand guns."

Carroll, Bob Doherty and Tom Morris. C~rroll and Doherty Such is the business of covering are 1941 graduates of then Msgr. Coyle High School, Taunwar in the former Yugoslavia. ton' Morris is a 1941 graduate of Durfee High School, Fall Ms; Ricchiardi, a Catholic and Ri;er. Carroll and Morris live in the area of Washington, DC, a native of Gillespie, Ill., has written about the Balkan conflict for where the newspaper is based, with Carroll as editor and several daily newspapers and for a Morris a book reviewer and feature writer. Doherty, a freemagazine, American Journalism lance military writer and author of two books on World War Review.

II also reviews books and contributes features to the newsThis month she begins a fivep~per. He is a Taunton resident. month stay in the Balkans as a Fulbright Scholar.

But she has more than a professional interest in the Balkans. She has cousins in Croatian villages and the village church in Vivit where her grandparents were married has been blown up by mortar The New England Council of The Diocesan Council of Cathofire.

Catholic Nurses will hold its fall lic Nurses will meet Oct. 23 at St. "As a journalist" one of the meeting Oct. IS to 17 in Spring- John the Baptist parish, Westport. things I felt I could do is try to field with the theme "Serve' the Father James O'Donoghue, STD, raise the consciousness (of Ameri- Lord with Gladness." Diocesan a member of the faculty of Boston cans) by writing about human suf- chapter presidents have further College, will speak in the morning fering and the innocent people information on the program, for on "Humanizing Death in a Tech-' who get caught up in it," she told which registration closes Oct. I. nological World." The afternoon the Catholic Times, the newspaper Their telephone numbers are speaker will be Father Mark Hesof the Springfield, Ill., diocese.

New Bedford, Sister Theresa Ber- sion, St. Anne's Hospital Ethics Ms. Ricchiardi has made 30 geon, 996-675 I; Fall River, Betty Committee chairman, who will trips in all to the Balkans and was Novacek, 678-2373; Taunton, present a case study from ethical one of the first journalists to doc- Barbara Gauthier, 823-4116; and Grand Rounds. Continuing Eduument the massacre of 43 Croa- Cape Cod and Islands, Delores cation Units have been applied tians in the small village of Vocin, Santos, 775-3371. for.

80 miles east of Zagreb.

To date, 36 journalists have been killed covering the war and Serbian leaders have openly spoken of a bounty upon the heads of newspeople, she said.

To be fair and accurate, she NEW YORK (CNS) - Scien- the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space said, she does all she can to find tists must realize their work has a in New York, he recalled that the路 out what happened in different moral dimension and that while Vatican delegation had warned situations, frequently relying on the results of 20th-century science against "space pollution" through priests and nuns because they often have been impressive, they also debris from satellites, especially know area history and can help have been "ambivalent," said Arch- those carrying radioactive fuel. identify war victims.

Giving attention to this problem bishop Renato R. Martino, VatiMs. Ricchiardi has covered the can observer to the United Nations. "continues to represent a moral conflict with her husband, USA He commented in an address to obligation," Archbishop Martino Today photo editor Frank Fola conference of Western Hemis- said. well. "We check with the army and He also recalled that last year's phere scientists and others intersometimes get an escort if we're ested in outer space who met re- Rio de Janeiro conference on the going into dangerous territory. environment brought together concently in Santiago, Chile, Generally they get us to where we The conference, successor to one cerns for the environment and for need to go. They want to get the held in Costa Rica in 1990, was development, two themes that preword out." sponsored by the U. N. Committee viously had often been pursued She called it "heartbreaking" to on the Peaceful Uses of Outer separately. walk through hospital wards and But he said a more significant Space and the U.N. Development see young men without legs and step in preparing for Rio was Program. arms. "adoption of the principle which , "In recent decades scientists The journalist also described affirms,the centrality of the human and specifically space scientists devastated churches, describing have assumed an unexpected pro- being in all matters pertaining to one in Crno, Croatia, of which all phetic role," Archbishop. Marti~o environment and development." that stands now are the building said in his address, dehvered m Archbishop Martino said that shell and the bell tower. "it was the delegation of the Holy Spanish.

"Every day at noon, a soldier While many in the world in the See that insisted - at first almost rings the bell to let the townsrecent past "may have been led to alone - that the human being be people know it's back in the ~an~s think that science could give all the given its rightful central place," he of Croatians and that the pnest IS answers and solve all the prob- said, "for man is the only creature returning," said Ms. Ricchiardi. lems," he said, today "we hear in this world who is not only capamessages of warning, calls to re- ble of being conscious of itself and Vacation Defined sponsibility and appeals to human of its surroundings, but is gifted solidarity regarding the way we with the intelligence to explore, '''A family vacation is one where the sagacity to utilize, and is ultitreat creation," you arrive with five bags, four kids Citing a statement to a 1989 mately responsible for its choices and seven l-thought-you-packmeeting of the U.N. Committee on and consequences ofthose choices." ed-its."-Ivern Ball

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Science has moral aspect, says UN archbishop

The National Association of Catholic Family Life Ministers conference will be held in New England for the first time in 10 years Sept. 22 to 26 at the Marriott in Providence, R I. The conference is sponsored by the II dioceses of New England, with participation from staff members .of the Fall River diocesan Office of Family Ministry and diocesan representa'tives of ministry to the separated and divorced, parish family ministry, marriage preparation and natural family planning.

Those attending have the option of registering for the full conference. the weekend program, or Saturday only.

The program, themed "Heritage, Healing, Hope: Pilgrims on the Journey," includes: Sept. 22: welcome and storyteller.

Sept. 23: keynote on "Building

Strong Families" by Nick Stinnett, workshops and regional meetings.

Sept. 24: storytelling continues, NACFLM general assembly, parish and diocesan meetings, reception.

Sept. 25: keynote on "Brokenness: Places of Pain, Sources of Hope" by Paula Ripple, workshops, liturgy.

Sept. 26: keynote on "Putting Children and Families First" by John and Lee Zawacki, ministry specialization gatherings (separated/ divorced, bereavement, family enrichment, new families, respect life, parenting, natural family planning, marriage preparation, Hispanic ministry).

Registration brochures are available from the Office of Family Ministry, 999-6420.

Respect Life Walk plans underway The Fall River diocese will once again participate in the annual Respect Life Walk at Boston Common, this year to be held at 2 p.m.

Oct. 3 Respect Life Sunday. , . ..

Bis.hop Sean O'Malley Will Jom Car~mal B~rnard F. La~ of Boston m wal~mg the 3.5 mile route and s~eakmg at a I p.m. rally precedmg the walk.

Bus transportation is being arranged on a parish level by pro-life representatives and all are encouraged to attend. Diocesans will gather following the rally at a monument on the Common commemorating P<;>pe John ,Paul p's ! 979 ,'B'oston X1~i!,.~9, ,~~~t !J:t~yJa.'! __ . '_'_'_'_'_'_ "

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walk as a group with Bishop O'Malley and diocesan pro-life director Father Stephen A. Fernandes.

The event, sponsored by Mas-, sachusetts Citizens for Life, demonstrates support for women with problem pregnancies; for children, born and unborn; for all human life and for positive alternatives to abortion.

By o?taining sponsors, walkers ~ay raise ~un~s for ~ny of .50 proh~e orgamzatl~ns, mcludmg the dIOcesan P~o-Llfe Apostolate. .

Further mformatlOn on reglstration and transportation will ~e available in parishes later thiS <i!l9.n.t.h:::.:. ~~ <. ~. , , ' .:.. ~ : . ~ ~ ~ . , ~--.....- - - - : : - - - - : _

S.eamese Twins baptized, confirmed

PHILADELPHIA (CNS) Amy and Angela Lakeberg, Siamese twins separated Aug. 20 in pioneering surgery at Children's Hospital in Philadelphia, were confirmed three days before the operation. Amy died in surgery.

Angela, who received the single heart both had shared since birth, was in critical but stable condition a week after the operation.

Father Karl A. Zeuner, pastor of St. Agatha-St. James Church near the hospital, said he confirmed both infants Aug. 17, after they were transferred to Philadelphia for the operation. He said they had been baptized at Loyola

praye~BOX To the Good Shepherd Very bread, good Shepherd, tend us, Jesu, of your love befriend us, you refresh us, you defend us" your eternal goodness sends us in the land of life to see. \'ou who all can do and know, who on earth such food bestow, grant us with your saints, though lowest, where your heavenly feast you showest, fellow-heirs and guests to be. Amen.

University Medical Center near Chicago, where they were born June 29.

Peace drive asked CAPE TOWN, South Africa (CNS) - South Africa's bishops have called for a nationwide drive for peace in the months leading up to next April 27's national elections, the first involving all races.

They asked Catholics to "undertake a campaign of prayer, fasting and almsgiving to plead for God's blessing on our nation during the difficult months leading to the elections." Members of the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference' are "deeply concerned about the violence and poverty which are engulfing the country and which threaten the political progress being made at the multiparty negotiations," the conference said in a statement.

Bridge building SAN ANTONIO (CNS) Father Clarence Williams, pastor of St. Anthony Parish in Detroit, believes it is time for U.S. blacks and Hispanics to begin dialogue about their common experience of oppression due to racism. Father Williams, project director for Racism and the Renewal of the Mind, recently led the first of what he and other organizers said would be four yearly national conferences 'on "Bridges in Black and Brown." The conference took place at the Mexican American Cultural Center in San Antonio: others will take place in Detroit, New. York and Los Angeles.

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PRIORESSES OF three Dominican congregations holding merger talks process to altar on feast of St. Dominic for Mass at Mont Marie, Holyoke. Preceding Father Richard Dono.van, OFM, pastor of St. Louis parish, Fall River, and Mass celebrant, are, from left, SIsters Kathleen, Hebbeler, Ossining' congregation; Sister Annette Roach, Fall River; Sister Rose Marie Harkins, Newburgh: (Gaudette photo)

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the foundation for consideration of models for liriion of the three groups.

Collaboration began several years ago for the Newburgh and Ossining congregations. The Fall River Dominicansjoined the process in 1990 when the three groups met in Newburgh for their first joint assembly.

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ment in present ministries, the sisters seek new ways of serving the people of God through sharing of ideas, resources and personnel.

Sister Rose Marie Harkins, prioress of the Newburgh community, opened the Mont Marie assembly by inviting the over 200 sisters in attendance to let their "contemplation, prayer, and listening ...

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Uitiol'ns,chu'rch'have bond, says prelate NEWARK, ]'i'.J. (CNS) - The work of the trade union movement to improve the lives of working men and women parallels the U.S. Catholic Church's social action apostolate, according to Archbi-shop'. Theodore ~E': :McCarrick of 路Newar'k.' ': .',,' The U:S. church."has a:n historical bond with the unions," the archbishop tolel a gathering of archdiocesan seminarians and labor leaders. "For over a hundred years now our church and ,labor have worked arm.'in arm to better the lives ,oLmen and women in this society." , "The America-that you see today, and so many of the benefits that we take for gramed in this society, come from this combined effort," he added., The archbishop was a keynote speaker at "The Church and Labor: Partners in Justice," a formation day for seminarians from Immaculate Conception Seminary and state labor Ie!l~h:rs.. The prQg!am, held at Seton Ha II University, also featured panel discussions on la,bor issues, the image of unions, the history of church-labor relations and a,talk by t!:H: commiss'ioner of laborJor New Jersey. .

"Why in theworld are we l)ere?"

Archbishop McCarrick asked "the assembly. "Why is the archbishop interested in introducing the seml~ narians to the men a,nd women of labor?"

A main reason, he said, was' that many of .the sl~minarians, once they are ordained, will serve in parishes where many parishioners are union 'members.

"If you are to be a good priest you must be like Jesus who said, 'I

know mine, and mine know me,'" collaboration between the church he told the seminarians. and the labor movement has led to Archbishop McCarrick said such benefits as regulated health unlike seminarians of a half-century and safety conditions, labor laws ago, who "knew very well what protecting women and children, unions were and how they functi- and unemployment benefits. Much oned"" today's seminarians are of the church's involvement in ,unfamiliar with. the concept. labor comes through its social ; Seminarians ofthe90s are diverse action arm, which on a national in age, race, education and per- level is the U.S. Catholic Confersonal backgrounds, he said, adding ence and on state levels conferenthat "many of you have never had ces of area bishops. any contact whatsoever with the Archbishop McCarrick called trade union movement in the Uni- labor leaders proof that the social ted States. Some of you have no justice messages of various popes idea of what the labor movement '''did not fall on deaf ears." "Y ou in means to its members." the labor movement have heard Archbishop McCarrick said that them and made the dreams of milmany of the seminarians probably lions upon millions of people come formed their impression of unions true." from. the often "distorted and Even with these successes, there romanticized" information of the are still those untouched by the mass media. benefits born of the church-labor The a.rchbishop also said some relationship, according to Archbiserriinarians with different cultural shop McCarrick. backgrounds may be from coun"This meeting is a sign to you in tries where labor unions are more the trade labor movement that we political and where "sometimes of this great Roman Catholic comthe image of a im'ion can he a very munion are willing and ready to go ,violent one.", ' . back to the barricades if necessary In the. U.nited States, he said, and to fight and struggle, along with you, so that every man, woman and child on the face of God's Assigned ~~;Vietnam earth may enjoy health, peace, Father ,Charles ,P. Robak, a prosperity and the opportunity for Maryknoll missioner born in gainful employment," he added.

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Worker's Rights As we prepare to celebrate Labor Day, seldom have so many been so depressed. The status of the American worker has plunged. Unionism is in a state of paralysis. Battered and, bruised by socioeconomic reality, it is grasping at straws.

Negative attitudes have rendered its leadership ineffective, thus denying workers strong bargaining positions. In,an economy of recession, it seems that it's every man and woman for himself or herself.

The sad reality is that unions seem unable to respond to the shifting economics of the so-called new world order. For too, long the union power base rested on its laurels, taking everything for granted. Inevitably, union members reacted against the free spending and exaggerated lifestyles of their lead~rs.

Today those members are paying a very high price for the gap that was created between them and those supposedly dedicated to their interests. The reality of the recession-battered economy is evidence that current union tactics are obsolete.

The dominant factors in our economic doldrums are the large-scale layoffs by major corporations, coupled with a public that is wary of spending and investing. Added to these woes is the as yet unknown effect new tax laws will have on workers and all other segments of society.

All this contributes to undermining the public's confidence in all areas of our economy. Caught between the sluggish job market and taxes that will undoubtedly increase, workers have not had it so bad in a very long time.

Sadly, the union movement is in no position to come to their rescue. It is powerless to stop the closing or relocation of industries. It cannot guarantee its members that their pension funds will be stable at retirement time. It cannot stop the continual industrial mergers that are placing more and more workers in the unemployment lines.

Amidst these negative realities, we should still support the goals and ideals of unionism. The Church maintains that the right of workers to form themselves into associations is fun-. damental. She also maintains, as reflected in the documents of Vatican II, that these associations must truly represent workers and that those workers have the right to be active in them without risk of reprisals.

But sad to say, too many decisions affecting the economic and social condition of people are made by institutions seemingly indifferent to the human element involved.

As Catholics we have always believed that through work offered to God we are associated with the redemptive actions of Jesus, whose manual labor at Nazareth forever blessed the dignity of toil. The worker has the duty of giving a good day's work for a day's pay; but it is equally the obligation of the social order to see to it that all' capable citizens have the opportunity of finding employment.

Obviously both our government and our unions have a very long way to go to attain this ideal; but we must never abandon it simply because it is difficult of attainment.

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"Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it"Ps.126:1

The difference between want and need

By Father Kevin J. Harrington The news media dread the socalled dog days of August. Certainly the news coverage of President Bill Clinton's vacation on Martha's Vineyard testified to how desperate jounalists are for a story.

Hou'rs of the nation's most prized air time were devoted to Pope John Paul II's visit to Denver for World Youth Day last month, but despite their blanket coverage many journalists did little to advance public knowledge and understanding of the pope" the current state of Roman Catholicism, moral issues or young people, Indeed, the headlines and poll results have not changed since the Pope's 1987 visit to the United States. The fact that there is widespread dissent from the Church's official condemnation of abortion, contraception and sex outside marriage is hardly a new story. And the American bishops' futile attempt to pass a pastoral letter on women's issues brought to public attention the in-Church disagreements surrounding not only the issue of ordaining women to the priesthood but also other questions about sex and roles for women.

The image ofa polarized church was magnified to the point of distortion and only served to obscure the papal mesage, Everything the pope said had to fit journalistic preconceptions.

Hence, those who reported the news interpreted as confrontational

his plea at the airport: "If you want the media gurus would have us equal justice for all and true free- believe. ,Obvious!y, the youth were dom and lasting peace, then, ~~t~a~ted'':l0~· only \>y th<ffi.e's.sage America, defend life!" Peter Stein- but to the messenger. Here was a fels, an exception to most journal- rTla'n wliospoke Of a morality not ists, astutely noted in the New based upon cultural relativism but York Times: "A rabbi observing written in the hearts of his fellow the pope's arrival and the news humans. media's interpretation wondered Here was a man of obviou.sspirwhether Jews would be able to itual depth"ciipacious intellect and make the traditional toast, strong will. Here was a man who 'L'chaim!' - 'To life!' - without sur\:'ived the rule of two modernappearing to enter the abortion day Satans, Adolf Hitler and Josef debate."

Stalin, .as well as an assassin's The real story was that close to bullet, without wavering from any 200,000 young people flocked to of the fundamental values that the Mile High City and encounhave shaped him as a human being. tered a charismatic leader who However unpopular his moral teachcaptured their hearts. The Holy ings may be according to pollsters, Father did not deliver a stern lecPope John Paul II confounds th~ ture about personal behavior but . pundits by.: his lastiJ.1g appeal. . challenged the young people to His "hard line" on the controdiscover within themselves their . ~ersiai 'moral i~sues of the day is true dignity.

His moral diagnosis of the woes reminiscent of Jesus' hard sayings that underlie and afflict contem- that led to a winnowing away of porary society did not make the many of his early disciples. When headlines but it was at the very the crowds beg~n to desert him, heart of everything he said, He Jesus asked Peter if he too would lamented the loss of belief in walk away. Peter's- answer was objective truth and in universal simply to note that there was no principles of morality, In a world other place he could turn to find that has seeningly slipped free of the words of everlasting life.

Instinctively, the youth at World its moral moorings, young Catholics were eager to hear the comfort- Youth Day had that feeling about ing words 'of the sovereign pontiff Pope Paul II when they strained to exhorting them to live according hear his every word. Our youth can discern the difference between to unchanging fundamental values!

There may have been nothing the voices that tell them what they new in the papal message but there want to hear ,and the voice in Denver that told them what they was a news story in the fact that needed to hear!

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) - A U.S. nun is one of five Benedictines preparing to work in a hospital in China's northeastern Manchuria region.

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Ezekiel 33:7-9 Romans 13:8-10 Matthew 18:15-20 For most of us Christians, confronting people is as far away from

By FATHER ROGER our faith as heaven is from earth.

KARBAN If we're doing what we believe God tian, but whose statements and wants us to do, why should we actions demonstrated they were worry about what anyone else is not. doing?

But even knowing all this, we So today's first and third readings cause us problems. Each pre- still have our original question: sumes circumstances in which why did they believe it necessary to confront? Why didn't they just we're actually required to do so. treat problem persons like "GenCertainly we can appreciate Ezekiel's obligation to "stay in the tiles and tax collectors" from the face" of certain members of his very beginning and walk away from them? We find the answer in community. He's a prophet "watchman for the house of Israel." the rest of the Gospel and in our Yahweh has charged him to speak pericope from Paul's letter to the Romans. out: "When you hear me say anyThe first Christians believed the thing, you shall warn them for risen Jesus lived among them. They me." knew"...Where two or three are Given such a mandate, it's not gathered in my name, there am I in surprising the Lord holds Ezekiel their midst." This conviction led responsible foJ' those who might them to understand that they not die if he refuses to confront. only shared Jesus' power of bindBut since we presume the aver- ing and loosing, they also shared age Christian has no prophetic his commitment to prophetically assignment, why should hel she confront those who opposed his be obligated to go through the teaching and ministry. often painful process Matthew outYet, they didn't develop a policy lines in our Gospel pericope? "If of confrontation because it was your brother si:lls (against you), go the most efficient and definitive and tell him.. .If he does not listen, way to rid the community of take one or two others. . .If he troublemakers. (We Catholics refuses to listen to them, tell the evolved much more efficient and church. If he refuses to listen even definitive methods through the 'io"tlii:: church, then treat him as .. centur.ies.) They used it because it yo~~ouid' a 'G~ntile, Or'3 .tax best carried out their belief that collector."

Jesus was only present when they The last Iinl~ leaves no doubt showed love to one another. They Matthew is writing for a Jewishshared the Lord's power and Christian community (certainly commitment because they first Gentile-Christians associated with shared his love. other Gentiles). But it also desAs Paul writes, "Owe no debt to cribes a plan of action which comes anyone except the debt that binds from his community's earliest traus to love one another. Whoever ditions. (By the time the gospel loves his neighbor has fulfilled the appeared in the 70s it wasbec'omlaw... Love never does any wrong ing almost impossible· for even to the neighbor. .."

Jewish-Christians to avoid contact Preserving proper authority and with Gentile-Christians.) The structure can never be the reason procedures are clearly based upon the church responds to problems. similar guidelines found in ancient All Christian actions must be Judaism. inspired by, and carried out with This unique passage shows that love. That's why this process is so once Jesus'followersbegan to long and complicated. It was deveunderstand themselves as "church," loped on a model of love, not" on a they started to develop confrontamodel of efficiency. tional steps for dealing with We only confront those whom members who daimed to be Chriswe regard important enough, and love enough, to confront. We preserve their dignity by initially keeping "it between the two of you." And, if need be, we demonSept. 6: Gol 1:24-2:3·; Ps strate the impact of their actions 67:6-7,9; lk 6:6-11 . by eventually bringing others (even the whole community) into the Sept. 7: Col 2:6-15; Ps process.

145:1-2,8-11 This method not only shows loving respect, it also makes us, Sept. 8: Mi 5:1-4 or Rom the church, respectable.

Daily Readings

8:28-30; Ps 13:6; Mt 1:1-16, 18-23 or 1:18-23 Sept. 9: iCol 3:12-17; Ps 160:1-6; lk 16:27-38 .

Sept. 10: 1 Tm 1:1-2, 1214; Ps 16:1-2,5,7-8,11; lk 6:39-42 Sept. 11: 1Tm 1:15-17; Ps 113:1-7; lk 6:43-49 Sept. 12: Sir 27:30-28:7; Ps 103:1-4,'9-12; Rom 14:79; Mt 18:21··35

New Louvain rector LOUVAIN, Belgium (CNS) Vincentian Father David Windsor has been named rector of the American College at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium.

He succeeds Father Melvin T. Long of the diocese of Salina, Kan., who has been serving as interim rector and who will return to his post as seminary executive vice president.

Father Windsor has been a member of the theology department at St. John's Seminary College, Camarillo~··Calif., since· 1983.

The Chinese government asked Benedictine missionaries to return to Manchuria - an area from which they were expelled more than 40 years ago - to build and run the hospital, according to Fides, a bulletin published by the Vatican Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples..

Sister Mary Michael Rottinghaus, a Minnesota native belonging to the Benedictine community in Norfolk, Neb., and the four other sisters have been in China since March, Fides reported.

Sister Rottinghaus is an X-ray technician, said a spokeswoman at

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the order's headquarters in Rome.

The other sisters include a German and three South Koreans, all of whom are medical professionals.

Abbot General Notker Wolf, head of the Benedictine Congregation of St. Ottilien, Germany, explained 'that the Benedictine monks and nuns asked to operate the hospital belong to the same communities as those expelled from Manchuria in the 1950s.

He said construction of the hospital in the city of Meihekou, an important road and rail junction in northeastern China, is being funded with German donations.

An agreement made with the government promises that the hospital will remain the property of the Benedictines ever after 1995, when it is scheduled to replace a state-run 600-bed hospital.

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By FATHER JOHN J. DIETZEN 'Q. I see often these days the title of parochial vicar. What does that mean? Is there a difference between pastor and parochial vicar? (New York) A. Parochial vicar is the technical canonical title for what we in the United States usually call assis-

What and who is a parochial vicar, anyway'? tant or associate pastors. In some English-speaking countries they are called curates.

Parochial vicars in this sense must be priests and are assigned by the bishop to "serve in pastoral ministry as co-workers with the pastor in common counsel and endeavor with him, and also under his authority" (Canon 545).

Q. My husband is a Catholic whose wife divorced him 20 years ago after she had an affair and married her lover.

After years of living alone, my husband married me. We are very happy. Because of his remarriage he feels he is denied the sacraments

MARY KENNY Dear Dr. Kenny: How do I get my sixth-grade son to get better grades in school? His grades slipped last year from A's and B's and C's.

Now that he's injunior high I want him to get off on the right foot.

We have tried grounding him and withholding privileges, but it didn't seem to help much. I've , thought oftelling him that he can't participate in sports unless he

possible for your husband's exwife receiving the sacraments.

First, she may have received a declaration of nullity (annulment) of her first marriage.

Unless your husband is certain she did not, it would be worth checking on since it would mean he is free to marry also.

Normally, the respondent in an annulment case will be notified of the process and decision.

Sometimes, however, for one reason or another, this notification does not happen. Your husband can find out for sure by asking her or by contacting the tribunal of the diocese where she would have entered the petition.

Anothe~reason,of course, could be simply that she is acting publicly contrary to the sacramental practice of the church.

The difference you asked about would lie in their differing acceptance of the church's restrictions on communion by those who have remarried out of the church.

A free brochure explaining Catholic teaching and practice on annulments is available by sending a stamped self-addressed envelope to Father John Dietzen, Holy Trinity Church, 704 N. Main, St. Bloomington, Ill. 61701. Questions for this column should be sent to him at the same address.

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of the church, even though his former wife is also remarried and receives all the sacraments.

Could you explain this? My husband is a wonderful man and is loyal to the church. He attends Mass regularly and gives generously to the church and is a fine Christian. ' Why can his first wife receive the sacraments of the church and he cannot? (Texas) A. Your letter raises many questions about the sacraments after a remarriage, but I will limit myself to responding to your actual question.

At least two explanations are

makes the B honor roll. What do you think? - Illinois , You are wise to show concern now, at the start of the school year, rather than wait until the grades begin to slide again. Here is a simple plan.

First, what not to do. Don't withhold privileges or punish him for poor grades. As you have already pointed out, that has not worked for you. Quite honestly, it does not work for most parents.

The reason, in many cases, that punishment fails to motivate students (or anyone) is that punishment necessarily focuses on the wrong thing. ,In punishing poor grades, it is the poor grades that receive the attention. The atten-

tion that comes along with the punishment is called "secondary gain."

Every parent has at one time or another said, "The more I get after him, the worse he gets.... He'sjust doing it to get attention." Of course he is. Attention is a reward. All human beings relish attention and will do what it takes to get it.

Another problem in withholding privileges or prohibiting sports is that you lose something worthwhile in itself. Taking away an important activity because of poor grades (or any misdeed) is usually a mistake.

You will get more ofany behavior that you pay attention to: Why not pay attention to what you want?

Unfortunately, grades are not totally under your son's control.

But homework is. And in almost every school system I know, a student who does all his homework begins with a C and works up from there. ' Ask the counselor for a weekly report from each teacher on homework assignments completed.

Count the number of assignments satisfactorily completed. Give a bonus for 100 percerit of homework done in a week.

If homework is being done'and your son is still not obtaining satisfactory grades, you might ask for a weekly grade report from each teacher. Translate the letter grades into points (e.g. an A equals four

points, a B equals three points, etc.) and keep track.

An additional advantage to weekly grades is that there will be no s':lri)fises at the end' Of a gr~di,hg p'eriod.. :' ' . .' _' t, " ' " -Points' for homework 'o{grades' can be' used' to' "purchase" certain unusual privileges or prizes. The advantage to a point system is that it allows you to focus on what you want, the good school perfoimance.

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Play shows love is only antidote to conflict, chaos •

By ANTOINETTE BOSCO

I have seen many interpretations of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet." But recently I saw a production of this classic play that interpreted it on a larger canvas, showing how love transcends the chaos in the world brought about by hate.

The play was presented at a monastic fair at the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Conn., and was conceived by a fine actor,

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Douglas got his idea for a new version of the play from a photo he saw in a newspaper.

The photo, told it all - the sad stor.y of Bosco Brickic, an Orthodox Serb and his love, Admira .

M . I h d h Ismlc, a ushm. t s owe tern, shot by snipers, lying d.ead. on a str~et, her.arm arou~d him, 10 the beSieged city of Sarajevo.

The two came from opposite warring factions in the former Yugoslavia's ethnic conflict. They had hoped to marry, but were killed trying to escape Sarajevo.

It was "Romeo and Juliet" all over again, Douglas reflected, explaining that one can see that the story of two people in love but

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Betsy Houlton played Juliet in the abbey productions. She said the group wanted to open up the . f 'b'I' f th e questIOn 0 responsl I Ity or deaths by drawing a parallel between Shakespeare's tragic play and the real deaths of the young .. couple 10 Sarajevo.

"We didn't want to present a tidy little package that the audience would feel removed from,'.' Ms. Houlton said, explaining that the players wanted to stir the audience "to participate with us in what we were trying to explore."

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Romeo, beheves It IS the lastmg quality of love, "like the love so purely and passionately alive in Romeo and Juliet," that transcends all the misdirected acts of others in society.

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Noone left the theater after seeing this very special and meaningful "Romeo and Juliet" without being truly moved by what this group had done. . The Abbey of. Regina Laudis players beautifully showed us that we are called to be lovers, and that love is the only antidote to conflict and chaos.

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Meetings that touch the heart and soul By DOLORES CURRAN

The setting is a classroom in the parish school. It's 7 p.m. and 12 adults sit in a circle with paper cups of coffee on their desks. The leader for the evening begins with a prayer and reads a Gospel passage on forgiveness.

Then she says. "I have a problem forgiving some old and recent hurts, even when I pray to be forgiving. For example, I have a relative who is always putting me down. I get terribly angry and find it hard to forgive. I'd like some help from any of you who have dealt with this."

Two others shared their difficulties with forgiving and then a man

said, "A retreat master told me once that the best way to forgive a person is to pray for his or her happiness daily. I do that and it works, as strange as it may sound."

When I wrote recently about an interview with George Gallup, J r., I didn't have space to include his words on what the laity want from the church beyond homilies which touch their hearts and experiences. According to Gallup's research, laity believe they should have more power, that is, more say in religious decisions which affect their lives, and they' want more small groups for scriptural and spiritual nourishment.

Americans, Gallup says, are already moving into small group dynamics with one-third of the population in some kind of small group meeting. Sixty percent of these groups are related to a religious institution. Something is hap-

pening in these groups that nourishes the spiritual hungers of people who aren't finding these hungers fed in the larger church.

Participants are unashamedly sharing doubts, experiences, vulnerabilities and a living faith with one another. There are no hidden agendas, lesson plans, or even discussion questions. These groups touch the hearts and souls rather than the mind. And that's why they are so popular. People can relate to them more than headcentered religious study groups and they're finding spiritual support in one another.

We're a terribly head-centered church. Our leaders are well-trained in theology, doctrine, church law, and rational thinking. A quickglance at our seminarians' course of study shows that the cognitive level of religion reigns with very little emphasis on the affective or feeling level.

Many, indeed, are afraid of the feeling level because it doesn't always "fit" doctrine, canon law, and church-sanctioned interpretation of scripture and theology.

Yet, as Gallup says, people need to talk about their spiritual needs and their religious doubts.

There are other small groups, much older than the model I described - prayer groups, scripture groups, and centering prayer groups - which are touching the

hearts and souls of Christians. To anyone wllo has experienced, such groups, it's clear that the Holy Spirit is an active participant.

Paradoxically, the power that the laity seeks is unleashed in the Spirit and emerges in unexpected ways which are changing our church as well as our souls. If God works through humans, as we so often hold. the small group discussing everyday spirituality is a living example.

Still outsiders LOUISVILLE, Ky. (CNS) African-Americans are still treated as outsiders in religious life. said a black Capuchin brother during a meeting of three black Catholic groups in Louisville. Capuchin Brother Booker Ashe of Milwaukee said in many U.S. dioceses fin~ncial considerations take priority over fostering the history

and traditions of African-American Catholics. "Schools are still closing, and parishes merge without tribute to the black blood that went into making them spiritual," he said. "More time is spent on making sure that the financial books are balanced than ... on making sure that love is on the heavy side of the scale."

St. Stephen Priory , Spiritual Life Center 20 Glen Street, Box 370 Dover, MA 02030 Tel: 5ffi.78'>0124

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the Rock, you abandon the cornerstone, you abandon the Church, you abandon Christ himself. Our Lord made it simple for us.

Please review your editorial and reconsider your opinions about Denver and Mother Angelica.

Your comments offended many Roman Catholics; they have placed enigma in many minds in our dio-' cese and have put much wind in the sails of false religions.

Sam Davis, SFO North Dartmouth

Dear Editor: I am shocked and very concerned about the effects your Aug. 20 editorial, "Denver Reflections," might have on the puzzled faithful and all the confused souls seeking the truth about our existence.

You conveye:d the idea that everything went wonderfully in Colorado. I'm sure our Holy Father would disagree with you.

For if this were s,o, why would our Holy Father decline to participate in the Passion of Our Lord [Stations of the Cross] with so many Dear Editor: young souls? This is a most pious act of devotion and meditation on Your article on the Denver pilgrimage was wonderful - and the sufferings of Our Lord. He [the knowing that it had to have been pope] wanted to make a statement written after that "red-eye special" and his absence did just that. (The flight in order to meet publication pope was never scheduled to participate in the Stations ofthe Cross. deadline impresses me even more....

Again, great job!

The devotion took place on his Denita Tremblay long-planned dlly of rest in the Principal, Colorado Rockies. At the end of St. Stanislaus School the service, he gave a brief greeting Fall River and reflection to the young people via satellite hookup. Editor) Perhaps [the pope] is not as lib-' Dear Editor: eral as you suggest. Our Holy Congratulations for the splenFather has already made decisions did article on World Youth Day on the gamut of issues you referred 1993. Being a writer myself, I to in Mother Angelica's statement, appreciate all the work you did. and he will nevl~r err concerning The article had a perfect blend of matters of faith Dr morals. the pope's statements, the young Pope John Paul II is a very wise people's comments and the preand holy man. He is the Vicar of sentation of all the events. May Our Creator and Redeemer and God continue to bless your efforts. wllo ,<\rt; y.oP?.AU E,o,man, ;CatlJo.-. ••• ' ,"J' ".NeiI.C.tFitzgerald ' lics have complete obedience to South Dartmouth him.

Catholics believe everything Our Lord has taught and promised them and consequently are in com- Dear Editor: plete alliance with the MagisteI am writing to request your rium of the Holy See. They do not support for mission needs. We deviate one jot or tittle. Any Catho- need rosaries, statues, medals, lic that does not believe as our seapulars, holy cards, used ChristHoly Father is, simply, no longer a mas and Easter cards and any other Catholic! items useful in our work for the I pray that more Catholics be- Lord. They will be shared by many come closed minded to outside missionary priests and nuns and in pressures pushing heresies. If you return we assure you of your follow the pope, you are following remembrance in our daily prayers the Vicar of Christ, you are follow- and holy Mass. ing the teaching of Christ, you are Father Paul Kochseekaran following Christ himself. If you Mary Queen Mission abandon the pope, you abandon Vandanam 688005 Allepey, Kerala India

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"Moments of grace" Sellt. 4 1864, Rev. Joseph P. Tallon, Pastor, St. Mary, New Bedford 1894. Rev. John J. Maguire, Founder, St. Peter, Provincetown Sellt.5 1948. Rev. Napoleon A. Messier. Pastor. St. Mathieu. Fall River Sept. 7 1966. Very Rev. James E. McMahon, Pastor. Sacred Heart, Oak Bluffs 1984. Rev. Raymond Pelletier.

M.S .. LaSalette Shrine. Attleboro Sellt.8 1868. Rev. Thomas Sheehan,

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SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain (CNS) - Archbishop Ramon Torella Cascante of Tarragona, Spain, told participants in the Fifth World Conference on Faith and Order that their special task was to keep before the ecumenical movement the goal of "working toward visible unity."

The archbishop, formerly on the staff of the Vatican Council for Promoting Christian Unity and now chair of the ecumenical committee of the Spanish bishops. said the ecumenical movement was "guided by grace." Among "momen~s of grace" he listed previous Faith and Order world conferences, formation of the World Council of Churches and convening of the Second Vatican Council.

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gets standing 0 from young adults DENVER (CNS) - Archbishop John R. Roach of St. Paul and Minneapolis bared his soul to a church full of young adults during Warld Youth day events in Denver.

And they rewarded him with a standing ovation.

Addressing a catechetical session for those aged 22 and 23. the archbishop spoke of his arrest nine years ago for driving while intoxicated and about how Jesus' love led him out of the "black hole" of alcoholism.

"Nine years ago, I had a DWI. I was almost 65 years old," he began.

"DWI is one bad scene, and it's especially a bad scene when you are archbishop of a large diocese."

Alcohol changed his life, Archbishop Roach told the young people. He said that although he had been quoted in Time before his arrest, the magazine had never run his picture until afterward. "I was in a black hole," he said.

But the arrest forced him to look at himself, he said. He decided to call a press conference and be honest and open.

"I had to say, 'I'm an alcoholic,' and I had to say, 'I'm sorry,''' Archbishop Roach said. "The second thing I did was I turned to my friend Jesus Christ and said, 'Y ou are the only one who can pull me out of this black hole.'

"My friends were marvelous, but they couldn't do what only Jesus Christ could do," he added.

Only God can providejoy, security and the ability to love and to forgive, the archbishop said.

"No one can help you live with the sense of guilt except Jesus Christ," he said. "He embraced me with his love and he filled me with his peace. He freed me of guilt."

Archbishop Roach told the World Youth Day pilgrims, "You may never have the same black hole that I had in my life, but you will have black holes.

"One mistake we can make is to underestimate Jesus' love for us," he added. "Don't sell him short.

Let him be as gentle, as loving, as peaceful, as forgiving with you."

August 25th, 1993 "Dear Children, I want you to understand that I am your Mother, that I want to help you and call you to prayer. Only by prayer can you understand and accept my messages and practice them in yom life. Read Sacred Scripture, live it, and pray to understand the signs of the time. This is a special time. Therefore, I am with you to draw you close to my heart and the Heart of my Son, Jesus. Dear little children, I want you to be children ofthe lighl and not of the darkness. Therefore, live what I am telling you.

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Cartoonist fights right-to-life battles with his pen WASHINGTON (CNS) Some unhappy readers blame Steve Benson's Mormon faith when his editorial cartoons pick on Catholics; and when he attacks Democrats, the president or Congress, the finger-pointers note that his home newspaper, Phoenix's Arizona Republic, is owned by former Vice President Dan Quayle's overwhelmingly Republican family.

The 39-year-old winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize is used to criticism stirred by his daily commentaries on the news.

But unlike many of his fellow syndicated cartoonists, Benson's work is chastised for opposing abortion, ridiculing capital punishment and defending traditional family roles.

"It is unusual to find a cartoon-

ist taking a' pro-life position," Ben- my Christian upbringing - molded son said. "But it's pure liberalism my perspectives," Benson said in a defending the voiceless and. the telephone interview with Catholic powerless."

News Service. .

He turned the lullaby "Rock-aWith fellow cartoonist Chuck bye· Baby" into an attack on the Asay of the Colorado Springs use of fetal tissue in medical test- Gazette-Telegraph, Benson perioding. He parodied the Sistine ically hits the speakers' circuit, Chapel's rendering of God bring- where lighthearted tales about their craft are mingled with a ing Adam to life by depicting Dr. Jack Kevorkian giving Adam a serious message about opposing fatal dose from his "suicide . abortion.

"I consider a cartoon to be a . machine."

He used his Christmastime pan- public arena," Benson explained. els to remind readers that the holi- "Its purpose is not only to make a day is about a simple but spectacu- statement but to provoke a relar birth. And in 1991 he noted action." with reliefthat when Jesus' mother "It can be a catalyst for diawas young, poor, and pregnant, logue. And when it comes to the Planned Parenthood did not exist. defense of an unborn human.... I "I acknowledge that my religious believe you can tell how human a training and influences in life society is by how it treats its most vulnerable. And in this country that's the unborn and the elderly."

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But he insists his opposition to abortion is not based on religion.

"I don't automatically subscribe to the premise that to be antiabortion is to be pro-religion," he said. "Abortion is basically a moral issue, especially if you start from the position that an unborn child is a human being."

Tacoma, Wash. "Exiled to the wilds of the Pacific No'rthwest," said the· biography in his latest book, "Where Do You Draw The Line?"

He stayed about a year and a half before returning to Arizona.

He also got reinvolved with the Mormon chUrch; the father of .four now teaches a religion class for teen-agers.

Despite his previous trouble, Benson also resumes his taunts of Mecham and anyone else he thinks gives the world the wrong impression of Mormonism.

For example, when it was learned B1;1t the flak h<;: gets o~~r his that the leaders of~drive to revoke abo·r,tion·.pqsiti,<m:is n~thing com:: • a h9Hdl\¥;hq~WJin¥.t.~I':J~:lfv;."M~r!j: pared to the complaints when . tin Luther King Jr. in the city of Benson takes on someone or Mesa were Mormons, Benson was something from his own church. quick to get on their case.

"I found it curious and, frankly, Like in April 1989, when a cartoon skewered fellow-M ormon embarrassing," he said, particularly Evan Mecham. It depicted the considering the second-class staformer Arizona governor as herald- tus the church used to apply to ing the "Book of Moron," a par- black members. "I thought it was a black mark on my church;" ody on "The Book of Mormon."

In Utah, his grandfather received Benson is qUick to note that he angry letters asking that the carhas annoyed people from just· toonist be punished by the church. about every religious background.

The elder Benson stayed out ofthe "My response would be 'where dispute. were you when I was criticizing However, local Mormon author- Jim Bakker or Pat Robertson or ities were less understanding. Ben- Bishop' [Thomas J.J O'Brien of son was threatened with excom- Phoenix?" . . . . munication and taken up on his "To a large degree my approach offer to step down from his mem- to my, profession has been infIubership on the high council of the enced by my grandfather, who local stake ofthe Mormon church. taught me to stand up. speak your Not long after, he took a job in mind and weather the storm."

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State seen inconsistent towards unborn ALBANY, N.Y. (CNS) - Two from an unexpected quarter recentrecent criminal cases in New York ly when Benedictine Father Paul expose inconsistencies in the way Marx, president of Human Life the state treats unborn persons International, praised Hayat for under the law, Catholic officials not having killed the child. say.

"While Hayat is indeed a butcher, One case involves a botched this case makes him less of a abortion in which a mutilated baby butcher than thousands of other girl was later born alive, while the respectable abortionists who are other relates to the slaying and more successful in mutilating and dismemberment of a pregnant killing their pray," he said. woman.

Father Marx said his organizaIn the first case, New York City tion has identified more than 20 physician Dr. Abu Hayat was con- survivors of abortion like Ana CNS.'Reuters photo victed in February on first-degree Rodriguez. The child needs an assault charges for cutting off Ana artificial arm.

AMY BIEHL Rosa Rodriguez's right arm dur"While my heart goes out to ing a botched abortion attempt on Ana and Rosa.Rodriguez because her mother, Rosa Rodriguez, nearly of what they have had to endure, eight months pregnant at the time. and what they face in the future, In the second case, a grand jury the fact is that butchers like Hayat CAPE TOWN, South Africa failed to indict Daniel Rondeau of chop up, poison or suction to (CNS) - A California woman Troy, N. Y., for killingthe4-month- death 4,400 babies per day in this stabbed to death in South Africa old fetus of Antoinette Strope. country," the priest added. "When was in the country "'to help people The jury did indict Rondeau on are the courts going to stand up for and to make a contribution to our second-degree murder charges for those babies and mothers?" society," said a Cape Town church allegedly strangling Ms. Strope, In the Rondeau case, Rensseworker. . whose body was found chopped laer County District Attorney Mary Amy Elizabeth Biehl, 26, of New- into six pieces and buried in plastic Donahue declined to discuss the port Beach, Calif., was a Fulbright bags in a snow-covered field in case she presented to the grand exchange student doing research Berlin, N.Y. . jury or the jury's deliberations and at the mainly black University of Taken together, the decisions findings. But she said her office the Western Cape. She was stabbed illustrate the "schizophrenic" way was "very concerned" about the New York State views assaults on fetus' death and had conducted a to death by a mob of black youths in a township outside of Cap.e children in the womb, said Kath- thorough review of the law in this Town Aug. 25, a day before she leen Gallagher, of the New York area and its relation to evidence in was to have returned to the United State Catholic Conference. the case.

States.

Under New York law, Ms. Gal"Certainly if the penal law were Ms. Biehl had worked for 10 lagherexplained, Ms. Strope's fetus amended, it would give more levmonths at the university's Com- could be killed in the womb and erage to a prosecutor and to a munity Law CenteJ, had a special neither Ms. Strope nor the state grand jury to do something that interest in women's issues and was could ·take action under civil or would hold up," she said. "I can closely involved with developing criminal law. tell you that right now, for a vot~r education programs in ~o~th But if the fetus is injured in the murder charge concerning a 4Afnca ahead of the country s fIrst. womb and later born alive as in month-old fetus, because of the nofiracial'ereetfon" for' ~ t he ..case'o ,.:~ - .f;:M"s. . R 0"d" nguez, • "' '•. "'li".." . ,scnea,ilea . t e definition of'person,' it's not there . child can sue for civil damages and next .Apnl 27.. under the law."

MIke Pothier, coord~nator.of the state can press criminal charges.

Ms. Gallagher has tried unsucthe Cape Town <?a~holic ~ewlsh The discrepancy is attributed to cessfully since 1989 to convince a~d ~eace COmml!;SI~,n, said Ms. the way the state has defined "per- the state legislature to update New BIehl s murder was even more son" in its homicide law and in York's homicide laws to protect tragic" because of her work with court cases over the years. unborn children.

South Africans, the majority of H ld b df whom are black. ayat cou e prosec~te or a In 1990, the U:S. Supreme Court Pothier, who met Ms. Biehl at a preb~rth as~ault agaInst the refused to hear a constitutional March seminar said. her death Rodnguez ch~ld because she was challenge to a Minnesota fetal "appears to be a ;acially motivated later. born alive and was hence homicide law, which declares the conSidered a person under the law. fetus to be a person from the k I'll'mg. " . moment of conception onward.

Ms. Biehl was driving three black Dr. Hayat was convicted on colleagues from the university when . assault and illegal abortion charges, her car was stoned by black youths. but he said he will appeal the Nothing Else Witnesses said she was forced to assault conviction on the grounds stop after the car's windshield w~s. that the baby was not a person at "The sun, with all those planets smashed by bricks. ' t h e time of the assault but was an revolving around it and dependent Singiswa Bevu, one of Ms. Biehl's "unborn fetus" possessing no legal on it, can still ripen a bunch of rights. passengers, said about 10 youths grapes as if it had nothing else in A defense ofthe p~ysician came the universe to do."-Galileo had chased them; aiming particularly for Ms. Biehl. The youths caught the American and stabbed her repeatedly in the head, face and body, said Ms. Bevu, who was stabbed in her right hand trying to shield her friend.

Allan Boesak, a former South African Council of Churches official and now an official of the African National Congress, prayed over Ms. Biehl's body shortly after the killing. He said Ms. Bevu had asked youths why they were attacking the American and was told, "because she is a settler," the radical Pan-Africanist Congress students' organization term for a white person.

Pothier said the Justice and Peace Commission "is concerned DRAMATIC BACKDROP FOR A DRAMATIC at the increasing tendency for people to be singled out by extrem- DROP: World champion pole vaulter Sergei Bubka clears 5.7 meters in front of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, ists and murdered because of their race." He noted that in late July a the Spanish town where St. James the Apostle is believed to be black woman was shot dead by buried. In addition·to hosting an athletic exhibition as part of whites in a car whi'le she was waitcelebrations for the Holy Year of St. James, the town was the ing for a taxi with other domestic workers in .J ohannesburg. South site of the Fifth World Conference on Faith and Order in August. (CNS/ Reuters photo) Africa.

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When children must help their parents

By Monica and Bill Dodds

Secret of happy marriage

By Dan Morris Catholic News Service Secret of happy marriage: Learn to accept the fact that your wife will ask the waitperson to rattle off the restaurant's salad dressing options even though she's going to order Ranch.

"Why do you do that?" I ask her every time we go out.

"Maybe it's to get even with you for always going, 'Oh my, yes, a salad wouldn't be a salad without freshly ground pepper,'" when someone shows up with a baseball bat full of peppercorns. Or maybe something else will strike my fancy."

After 22 years of watching this routine, I doubt any fancies are going to be struck. But remembering another secret, I keep my mouth shut.

I felt badly, recently, however, for a nice waiter who thought he had a sale on the house dressing.

"Italian, French, Roquefort, Ranch and ...." he was telling spouse as I shook my head and drifted to the dessert page.

"And," he repeated, bowing

slightly and pausing dramatically, "our special house dressing."

Flamboyant grin. "It's a savory vinaigrette with a tangy ,yet sweet ambience that's quiet special. Our competition would kill for the recipe. " "Oooh that sounds wonderful," my wife glowed.

"May I put you down, then, for the house?" he asked, beginning to make his notation.

"Oh, I think I'll have Ranch," the vixen smiled.

"And you, sir?" the poor man sputtered.

"Do you have any end cut left on the prime riliT' I asked in unison with my wife in the background.

"If you don't," I and my echo continued, "I'll take a medium cut medium rare."

After the patient man left, spouse grinned at me.

"So I like prime rib. What's wrong with that?" I grumbled.

The salads arrived. "Fresh pepper?" the peppy pepper peddler piped.

Wife and I nodded one, two, three, then began, "Oh, my, yes, a salad wouldn't be...."

The night Jon needed to talk

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By Dan Morris It was our. oldest son on the phone. "I just need to talk to someonk," he started. It was Friday, just\ before midnight.

Jon's voice was choked, strained.

It caught me off guard. As caring and empathetic a young person as Jon is, ht,iS also youngman macho.

Tough y. One of the boys. Chews chew. J alks the talk. Walks the walk. Street smart.

Wh~n we named J on, we left out the 路jh." I don't remember exactly why unless it was so a common name could have an uncommon spelling. As it turned out, about 70 percent of the boys named J ohn/ J on in those days did not have an "h."

Jon. however, found an "h" early in life - and it stood for humor.

There is something about this kid that makes people laugh. He loves people - tall ones, short ones, round ones. old ones, grumpy ones, and even teenagers, having been one a few months ago himself.

Thus, we were not surprised when he decided to pursue a health care career - starting with emergency medical technician (EMT) training. "H" now included helping.

Last Friday was his regular shift on our small town's hospital ambulance team. They were "toned out" at 10:30 by 9-1-1. Vehiclepedestrian incident.

"We can usually tell by the dispatcher's voice how serious a call it might be," J on said with a catch in his own voice, "but this time it was hard to tell. They sent us code [lights, siren] and put a chopper on standby, but that's pretty standard procedure."

When they arrived they found a young woman in a pool of blood, her skull broken open. Questions swirled and still do. She and a friend had been walking by the road. Why? A vehicle struck her -a truck, a car? Hit-and-run?

Had it stopped? Were drinking or drugs involved?

The questions could wait. The seasoned paramedics and our trainedbut-not-tried son worked with practiced speed to stabilize the young woman, transport her to the emergency room, help with the airlift.

It had been a friend of J on's. He had not recognized her even after helping her breathe from the accident scene to the hospital.

"I don't see how she's going to make it," he said on the phone. "It could have been me, or one of the boys [his brothers], or any of my friends. It shouldn't have happened." The young man's "h" embraced hurting and humbled.

How many families have ever had to say this? How many more?

First ordinations WASHINGTON (CNS) While Josephite priests have long served African-American Catholics. never has the order had African members until this year, when two Africans were ordained. They have beell visiting Josephite parishes in the l Eastern and Southern United States, filling in for vacationing priests. learning the ropes from pastors, and saying thanks to supportive parishioners. They are Father Michael Saah-Buckman, from Ghana. and Father Anthony Nwachukwu-Udaku, from Nigeria.

Cook. Chauffeur. All-around fix-it person. Financial officer.

Problem solver. Protector. The list goes on.

Any parent wears a lot of different hats when raising children and running a household. Some are worn proudly; others grudgingly.

But no matter how they are worn, everyone in the family knows they belong to that parent. There are his. There are hers. Until.. ..

Until everything begins to change as your parent ages and you, the adult child, must start to assume more and more of those responsibilities for Dad or Mom, filling roles that were always his or always hers.

It's not easy to see those changes in your parent when Dad can no longer drive the car or handle paying the bills; when Mom isn't able to cook or take care of the house.

It's understandable that an aging parent can have a hard time giving up those favorite tasks. Maybe Dad is known for his beautiful garden. Mom for her wonderful family dinners. Now someone else will be clipping the hedge or making the pot roast, and your parent knows that person can't do the job as well as he or she did.

And, aging parents may argue, just who says they can't do that anymore? You? Why, they were' doing that when you were in diapers.

It's no wonder your help can sometimes be met with resistance and anger, can be seen as interference rather than assistance. ..

But it can very well be that you don't want to assume so many of those responsibilities but see you must. Maybe you can't have everything just the way Mom did for extended family dinners. Maybe you don't know how to fix Dad's car and so - God forbid! - you have to hire someone else to do it. ("A stranger? You're throwing away good money on a stranger to change the oil?")

If you find yourself and your parents reversing roles, it can help to keep in mind that you need to be gentle about the changes that have to be made.

Go slowly. Start with small things. .

If at all possible, let your parent still play a part. For example, maybe Mom can't host Thanksgiving dinner but can still make her famous gravy for it. Maybe Dad has to stay off the ladder but can supervise when the gutters get cleaned.

There is another role that reverses as your parents age. Growing up, M om and Dad were the ones who chased away the bogeyman, the ones who made everything better.

Now they are scared: aging isn't easy.

Watching them grow old and lose abilities isn't easy either. It's frightening. But now you are supposed to be the one who is strong and brave. Now you cannot lean on them, because they need to lean on you.

This is a strange and confusing time that brings new challenges as it exposes new facets of the love you share. It is also a precious time.

Pray and Labor.

"Those things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us the grace to labor for."-St. Thomas More

THE RIGHT MOVES: Matt Leali, a student at St. Thomas School in Peoria Heights, Ill., takes onJohn Williams, host of a radio show, in a chess match. Matt knocked off a team of three adult competitors in 18 moves in a game that spanned three weeks. (eNS photo)

Competition doesn't faze 7-year-old chess whiz PEORIA HEIGHTS, Ill. (CNS) His father describes Matt as a - The Chic,ago B1,1 II,s' M,,,hael. "real open and friendly:'., p~rsq,!1 Jordan may be unstoppable.on the.. who likes to have fun. "This' is not basketball court, but 7-year-old a dull child," he said.

Matt Leali thinks he could put him Mike and his wife, Karen, have in check. two other children, and they try to Matt, a second-grader at St. support all their children in the Thomas School in Peoria Heigtits, activities that interest them. Kacan make some pretty impressive trina, 10, plays soccer and also moves himself - on a chess board. chess, but 4-month-old Dominick He placed second this summer is still too young to be involved in in the first-grade category of the much. ' U.S. Chess Federation's scholastic "We try and help them be good tournament in Washington, and is at whatever they do," Mike said. ranked 39th nationwide among "That's what parents should do." those in the kindergarten through third-grade division.

Why does the youngster think he could do so well against Jordan? "Because he doesn't play chess," he told The Catholic Post, newspaper of the Peoria diocese.

Father James Fitzpatrick, paroMatt learned how to play from chial vicar at SS. Peter and Paul his father, Mike, and he took to parish, Fall River, is among new the game very easily. board members of Hospice Out"He picked it up very quickly, reach, headquartered at Clemence and he did well very quickly," Hall of St. Anne's Hospital, Fall Mike said. "I took him to a lot of River. tournaments. and he won a lot of Amongcurrent programs offered trophies." free of charge by the United Way The young chess player's suc- agency is an eight-week bereavecess has brought him a considerament support group for children ble amount of local media atten- ages 7 to 14 who have lost a family tion, and led to regular appearances member or friend through death in on WMBD-AM radio in Peoria. the last three years. Meeting from A trio of WMBD radio person- 3:30 to 5 p.m. each Friday from alities challenged Matt to an ongo- Oct. I through Nov. 19, the group ing, over-the-air chess match this will use art, play therapy, stories summer. Each morning at about and films to help children cope 7:30 a.m. for nearly three weeks, with grief. morning show host John Williams A film for adults who have lost a talked to Matt by telephone. Each loved one, especially a spouse, will side then made its move for the be shown at 6 p.m. Oct. 28, folday. Matt also came out to the lowed by discussion from 7:30 to studio to take a turn or two.

8:30 p.m. To be seen is "Foxfire," Matt disposed of the WMBD with Jessica Tandy and Hume morning team in 18 moves.

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By Father Pierre E. Lachance, OP

Have you ever be:en accosted by someone who askl~d if you had been saved or born again? These are questions a Fundamentalist Christian is likely to ask. Why? Because he is convinced that if you are not "born again" as Fundamentalists understand it, if you have not accepted Jesus as your personal Savior, you are not saved, therefore you are going to hell when you die, and he sincerely wants you to be saved.

Fundamentalists believe that salvation depends on that one act by which you accepted Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior on such a day, at such an hour, in such a place. That's when you "got saved" and became a Christian.

They also believe that once you are saved, you cannot lose salvation. You are certain of going to heaven when you die, even if you end up living in sin: "once saved, always saved."

This may sound incredible to Catholics, but it must be understood that what Fundamentalists mean by salvation is something radically different from what Catholics mean. With Martin Luther, Fundamentalists hold that the grace of Christ doe:; not take away our sins; they are '~'c()ve[ed up'lby' the mer:its pf Je.sus ChI;ist ll:S with a. mantle.

Christ stands between God and us. God shuts his eyes to us and looks only at Jesus our Savior, thus all we need do to appropriate his merits is to believe in Christ with total confiden,ce. When we do that, his merits are credited to us, much as when we pay somebody else's debts;路 ..... , '.. ;, - - , ,J' 'In 6ttler word'S! saW.atfdITci'la'n'g~s' nothing in us. For a. Fundamentalist there is no such thing as "sanctifying grace" that makes us holy, a new creature, a child of God. We remain fore~er sinners, but covered up externally by the merits of Jesus Christ. Past and future sins thus cannot prevent us from being forever clothed with the mantle of Christ's mer,its.

This assurance: of salvation comes to us by being "born again."

Once again, all we need to do is accept Jesus Christ as our personal Savior. Nothing else is required, not even baptism, which is a mere sign of our repentance and our faith. That is why evangelists focus all their preaching on one thing, the "altar call": come forth and accept Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior.

This makes salvation very simpie and comforting. There is great peace and security, and great joy at the very thought of having been

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saved by the "blood of the Lamb."

Now a question: Are Catholics born again? If anyone asks you that, tell him, "You bet I am! I was born again when I was baptized."

That's how Jesus said one is born again: "N 0 one can enter into God's kingdom unless he is born of water and the Spirit." (John 3:5)

Fundamentalists never mention water when they quo:e this Scripture because baptism has no place in their scheme of salvation. In this, we Catholics are the ones faithful to the Bible.

We believe that baptism not only "covers up" but removes all sins: original and personal sins.

That's truly being born again. We eNS photo start a new life.

BISHOP FISHER We also believe that we can sin and lose our new life of sanctifying grace; but our sins can be forgiven and the life of grace restored through repentance, especially in the sacrament of reconciliation.

For us, salvation is not someLOS ANGELES (CNS) - In thing you receive once and for all. an emotional letter anticipating he It is a process that goes on our would soon die of cancer, Los whole lifetime. That's why Paul Angeles Auxiliary Bishop Carl A. could write to the Philippians, Fisher has written to loved ones to "You must work out your salva~ thank them for their contributions tion in trembling and fear." (Ph to his life.

2: 12) Heaven is assured only for "I know that almighty God is a those who die in the state of grace.

God of mystery,. but after two Mt<antime, we struggle with temp- years of struggle and suffering the . tation, we fall and ris'e again, but time has come when our blessed . Jesus reminds us that "whoever Lord is calling me to an eternal perseveres to the end will be saved." reward in heaven," he wrote.

(Mt 24: 13) Bishop Fisher, 47, had surgery A last question: who can be for colon cancer in April 1991. For saved? Fundamentalists believe that the next year and a half, the cancer only those are saved who have was in remission and Bishop Fisher made an act offaith in Jesus Christ resumed a busy schedule. Then a and accepted him as their personal September 1992 examination showSavior. Where does that leave all ed extensive damage to his liver who 路throughno fault 'of theirs do and further .surgery was performed.. notJ!<iibwGHiYSi ilHd'a're'unlfble't{)l.

Although Bishop Fisher initially make that saving act offaith? They felt energized after his second are all doomed to damnation! surgery, he gradually slowed down We Catholics believe that those again and in August went into who for any reason cannot make hospice care at St. Mary's Medical an act of faith in Jesus Christ can Center in Long Beach. From there, still be saved. St. Paul tells us that with family members and other "Christ died for ALL men." (2 Cor friends visiting regularly, Bishop 5: 15) Also, "God wants ALL men Fisher was reported to be spendto be saved." (I Tim 2:4) Pagans ing much time talking on the phone too can be saved without God's and writing letters. revelation, if they follow the natuAmong those to whom he spoke ral law written in their hearts by recently was Pope John Paul II God. (Romans 2: 12-16) who, while in the United States for That is the teaChing of the Vati- World Youth Day activities, called can Council: "Those also can attain seriously ill bishops to offer spiritto everlasting salvation who, ual comfort and assure them of his through no fault of their own, do prayers. not know the Gospel of Christ or "It is with a profound and heavy his Church, yet sincerely seek God heart that I write to you to thank and, moved by his grace, strive by you for the contributions which their deeds to do his will as it is you have made to my life," began known to them through the dic- his letter, which was distributed to tates of conscience." (On the many of his friends and was to be Church, n. 16) No one is more published in The Tidings, newsfaithful to the Sacred Scriptures paper of the Los Angeles archthan the Catholic Church! diocese.

Acknowledging his difficulty with putting his feelings into words, Bishop Fisher pointed to the Gospel promise of resurrection as the foundation for his hope in eternal life.

"A reading from the Book of Wisdom fills me with the hope for immortality which is the reward of the just," he said. "It is an assurance that after my earthly death I am really called to be alive with God. So death is not an ending, but the beginning of something permanent.

A native of Pascagoula, Miss., Bishop Fisher grew up in a large, poor, but close-knit family. After attending Epiphany Apostolic :" College High School and College in Newburgh, N.Y., he joined the MOTHER TERESA leaves New Delhi hospital after Josephite Fathers. treatment for malaria. She celebrated her 83rd birthday while After serving parishes in Washa patient. (eNS/ Reuters photo) ington and Baltimore, he was

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named auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles in 1986, the first black bishop in the western United States. He had been particularly active in promoting vocations among African-American youths and in establishing organizations for black youths and adults. During the aftermath of the Los Angeles riots of 1992, he repeatedly toured damaged areas, visiting and consoling those affected.

In his letter, Bishop Fisher said he was convinced God had already manifested at least three miracles in his life. Referring to his previous recovery from serious medical setbacks, he said he believed Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange had interceded on his behalf. In 1829 Mother Lange founded the first order of black nuns, the Oblate Sisters of Providence of Baltimore.

"Please never let us forget one another, and let the assurances of our prayers continue to unite us in friendship and in love," he concluded, quoting St. Thomas More's last words, "until we merrily meet in heaven."

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ONE OF 12 fragments from the Dead Sea Scrolls which will be on exhibit at the New York Public Library. (eNS/Israel Antiquities Authority photo)

Ancient Dead Sea Scrolls stir scholarly debate WASHINGTON (CNS) - The dust may have settled from the Dead Sea Scroll documents that are around 2,000 years old, but the controversy certainly hasn't.

Visitors to the exhibit, "Scrolls from the Dead Sea: the Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Scholarship" will not only view fragments of these ancient documents, they will also glimpse the debate which has long surrounded them.

Twelve parchments of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest known copies of the Old Testament, are on display at the New York Public Library.

The documents' contents have even been sensationalized in the tabloid press.

Newspaper accounts have claimed they contain a love letter from Samson to Delilah, information on the end of time and a cure for AIDS and cancer.

The purpose of the U.S. exhibit is "so all can see what's being discussed," said Gen. Amir Drori, director of the Israel Antiquities Authority, during a press briefing.

When one examines the fragments, it's almost hard to believe such minuscule parchment pieces

could cause so much commotion.

The two items highlighted in the exhibit as very controversial include fragments called "MMT' and the "Pierced Messiah."

Differing opinions on their interpretation have been raising scholars'eyebrowsforyears. The MMT text was recently the subject of a lawsuit when a bootleg version of it was reprinted without permission.

The "Pierced Messiah" text, no bigger than a matchbook, is displayed alongside a 1992 Time magazine article which quotes a scholar saying the text could be read in two different ways: one which suggests a Messiah figure either kills or is killed, depending on how you read the missing vowels.

Jesuit Father Joseph Fitzmyer, a Dead Sea Scrolls scholar and professor emeritus of biblical studies at The Catholic University of America in Washington, said the controversies have been "magnified" and "blown out of proportion."

He said people "must remember the texts are 1,000 years older than the oldest texts of the Hebrew Bible. That's what's important."

New ambassador to Vatican hits Eternal City like cyclone VATICAN CITY (CNS) - True est officials in the U.S. govern- think they're going to find comment" and could get them an mon ground on." The president, at to his word, the new U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, Raymond answer. least, wants to "build bridges" on Flynn, arrived in Rome like a The other major topic in his other issues, he said. small cyclone. talks with Cardinal Sodano - and Flynn hopes his new job will The ambassador soon found a theme of his remarks to just involve travel: southern Sudan is himself defusing potential tensions about everyone Flynn met in Rome being discussed, and Peru is a posover U.S. actions in Somalia, - was the "common ground" sibility, he said. The trips will be pumping up expectations for the shared by Clinton and the pope on "at the direction of the president," August meeting between Pope issues of social and economic he said.

John Paul II and President Bill justice.

In June, Flynn said he didn't Clinton, and thinking about poswant the job if it was going to be a sible trips to places like southern "ceremonial" post that involved Sudan. sitting in a "beautiful office in The whirlwind of activity was Rome where I'm looking out over unusual during the Vatican's sumSt. Peter's Square." Instead, he mer dog days of mid-July, when foresaw an expanded role that Pope John Paul II was out oftown would involve trips to world trouand most curial offices were windble spots and work to alleviate ing down. But Flynn said it was human suffering. important to hit the ground runOnce in Rome, Flynn said the ning if he was to turn the ambastrips would be at Clinton's-direcsador's position into a more "actition. "I'm not going around lookvist" job - as President Clinton ing for headlines here. I'm just wanted. going to understand the situation "Mr. Flynn Goes to the Vatibetter." can" opened under the media glare Flynn stressed that his first task ofa Boston press contingent, which was to learn his way around the accompanied the former mayor on Vatican diplomatic world and behis trip to Rome July 15. Two days come more familiar with global later, Flynn presented copies'ofhis issues. His first week in Rome credential letters to the Vatican included a two-hour session with secretary of state, Cardinal Angelo the San Egidio Community, a lay Sodano. The unusual move aleNS/Reulers pholo Catholic organization that has run lowed him to function as ambasAMBASSADOR FLYNN soup kitchens and brokered peace sador before his official accredita-, talks in Mozambique; meetings tion ceremony with the pope, ex"The United States is one of the with the Vatican's top officials on pected in September. most respected, powerful govern-- ecumenism, health care and huFlynn's talks July 17 with Car- ments in the world. The Holy manitarian aid; and talks with the dinal Sodano and Archbishop Gio- Father is one of the most influen- Israeli ambassador to Italy, the vanni Battista Re, assistant secre- tial moral voices of our day. And Egyptian ambassador to the Holy tary of state, were not perfunctory. all this, working together, can bring See and diplomats from five other Cardinal Sodano raised the issue about a real positive message of countries... ~.'~. ",.!. ~.,'''i:_ of Somalia "inimediately,"'Flynn hope to people," said Flynn.

"I want to learn the business. I said in an interview afterward.

The ambassador hopes for a want to be respected by my colCardinal Sodano said the Vati- close working relationship between leagues, both Vatican officials and can was concerned whether the Pope John Paul and President ambassadors to the Holy See. I United States was moving away Clinton. He described both men as want the U.S. representative to be from its original goal of guarantee-' hard-working, attuned to the needs taken seriously here," he said. ing relief and felt the issue needed of the poor and "young at heart," Flynn also found time to tour to be clarified. Flynn, who had with the ability to mobilize public Italian Boys Town facilities and discussed the matter with Clinton concern. met with pastors and parishioners assured him that the aim of the Flynn acknowledged the two at the Santa Susanna Church, U.S. mission was still to "bring leaders' differences on abortion home to U.S. Catholics in Rome. peace and humanitarian aid to and said: "I don't expect that anyHe moved his family into the amthose starving people." body's going to change their posi- bassador's residence and resumed The two also discussed the con- tion." The ambassador, who was a his morning jogging routine, acflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina and pro-life activist in the Massachu- companied by a security squad. the unsuccessful U.S. efforts to setts Legislature, said abortion was Other early activities in Rome find European support for more a "very important moral issue." have included a meeting with the forceful intervention there. Flynn But he said he hoped the pope Vatican's second:'highest diploemphasized that if the Vatican and Clinton could move beyond matic official," calls on six major wanted clarification on any U.S. that problem and "work on those diplomatic missions and a visit to policy, he had access to "the high- other 98 percent of the issues I Rome's North American College.

Vatican-watchers categorize tourists, curial clerics VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Like most Romans, most Vatican employees flee the city in August, leaving extra work for some and, apparently, too much free time for others. .

In sweltering St. Peter's Square, on the steps to the naturally cool marble basilica, two young men in long-sleeved shirts and precisely knotted ties are dealing with tourists.

Meanwhile, to the right of the basilica, upstairs in the Secretariat of State, borcdom seems to have pushed one'Vatican employee into categorizing his colleagues.

Some call the two young men below his window "Fashion Police," although style is not what they are looking for.

Perhaps the "Modesty Squad" is a better moniker for the team entrusted with ensuring that all who enter the basilica are suitably dressed, although, even they relax

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The other day, one even had his sleeves rolled up almost to his elbows.

But then, bare elbows are allowed for all. For women, bare thighs and bare shoulders are not.

For men, shirts and long pants are the price of admittance to the chilled marble goal.

Toward noon, when fully half the tourists were deemed insufficiently clad and were being turned away on their first attempt at entrance, those who had them pulled pants from their backpacks and over their shorts.

The women pressed into service scarves in a variety of colors and fabrics. Even a sheer black polka dot scarf loosely knotted at the neck qualified as shoulder-cover.

And a large scarf knotted on the hip allowed a woman in short black shorts to pass muster.

The presence of the bare scouts"

made headlines in the late '60s and pie" "traditionalist," and "intellec- Cola or eat hamburgers or popearly '70s in the battle against the tual is being treated with the same corn; have gone privately, at least miniskirt. good humor shown on the basilica twice, to Medjugorje; do not read Again this summer they are say- steps. the writings of theologians Father ing, over and over in several lan"It's summer," explained one Karl Rahner or Father Bernard guages, that men must wear long Vatican official. "There is nothing Haring; have a photograph of Pope pants and women's shorts or skirts wrong with someone fighting the Pius XII being carried on a throne. must reach the knees. heat or left without work wanting - Intellectuals: are environMeanwhile, upstairs, no one_ to joke a bit." mentalists and almost vegetarians; seems to know who the bored From his perch the anonymous . have never shopped at the Vatican secretariat worker is who came up writer included these descriptions employees' discount shop; frewith a "terna" (list ofthree, usually as guidelines for the typecasting of quently cite 20th-century philosoin reference to candidates for a curial officials: phers Theodore Wiesengrund bishop's position) for categorizing - Yuppies: play tennis or jog; Adorno and Ludwig Wittgenstein; his colleagues. have a personal computer and/ or like the commoners' dish of pasta But the description of curial a cellular phone; chew gum and and beans; own records by Sting clerics under the headings "yupwear La~oste shirts (not at work, and watch Woody Allen films. of course); closely follow the anCardinal Rosalio Jose Castillo nouncement of papal appointments Lara, governor of Vatican Cityin the Vatican newspaper; draw State, told an Italian newspaper he the ire of officials in St. Peter's thought the list was completely Basilica because their socks show out of date. . under their albs at Mass.

"They are caricatures which could - Traditionalists: have a bottle have been published after the of holy water from Lourdes on (Second Vatican) Council, at the their nightstand; never drink Coca- latest in the early '70s." he said.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Sept. 3, 1993

Sainthood candidate Continued from Page One blessed in 1990, on the 184th anniversary of his death.

Mazzuchelli's Life Samuel Mazzuchelli was born in Milan on November4, 1806, the youngest of fifteen brothers and sisters. His mother died when he was six, and he was sent to Switzerland to a school that provided a family atmosphere, along with an excellent education, to boys who had lost parents.

In 1823, the youn:g man entered the Dominican community. After a year he took vow:;, and was assigned to studies in Rome. There for three years, he !,earned of the American missions and the work of Dominican friar, on the Kentucky and Ohio frontier. When an urgent call for help came from that area, he was permitted to respond ..

He received the formal title of missionary, although not yet ordained a priest, and was assigned to the preaching and pastoral mission of the friars in th~ United States.

Samuel Mazzuchelli arrived in Cincinnati by. Ohio riverboat on December I, 1828, just after his 22nd birthday. He had completed a six-month journey from Rome, abandoned in mid-passage by his American guide, who left him to find his way to Ohio by himself, knowing not a word of English.

After his ordination in October, 1830, the young priest was named "pastor of Mackinac Island, Green Bay, and the surrounding region," which reached from Sault Ste Marie on the north to the Mississippi Valley on the southwest, all in the care of a 23-y'~ar-old. In this vast region he became the lone resident successor to the Jesuit missionaries from Canada.,who. had been withdrawn mo:re'thfm 50 years earlier. His parishioners were French-Canadians and Ottawa and Chippewa Indians.

For five years the priest served the Northwest region, including the Menominee and Winnebago tribes. His Menor.:linee liturgical almanac, the first item ever published in Wisconsin (then Michigan Territorykwas printed in Green Bay in 1834. His Ijrayerbook for the Winnebago Christians, of which only one copy remains, followed.

From 1835 until 1843, the priest served up and down the Mississippi Valley, establishing Christian communities in the new towns that· sprang up on both sides of the river, including Dubuque, Davenport and Burlington. These, together with his earlier foundations at Mackinac, Green Bay and Prairie du Chien, became the 40 frontier parishes of the upper Midwest. Of them, 25 parishes boast of Father Mazzuchelli building their first church, some still in daily use.

In 1839, the missionary, until then the only. priest in Iowa and the region across the Mississippi River, welcomed to Dubuque its first bishop, the French missionary Mathias Loras, who named Father Mazzuchelli his vicar. The two men continued the founding of the Church in Iowa and visiting of the missions across the Mississippi.

In 1843, Samuel Mazzuchelli returned to Milan for what was to be his only home visit, enjoying the company of his brothers and sisters and regaining his health after ,several serious illnesses. He also obtained help for his missions and obtained permission to establish two U.S. Dominican foundations, one of friars, the other of sisters. On returning to the United .States, he purchased the Sinsinawa Mound in southwestern Wisconsin, where he founded his two communities.

The friars' foundation was shortlived, with members eventually received into the Kentucky province of the Dominican order, but the sisters' community continues to this day. Meanwhile, Father MazJZ,uc/}elli.cQntinued,J;1is.parish.work and alsoC founoed 'Sinsinawa Mound College for men, where he was president and also a professor.

Later he also established and taught at a secondary school for young women in Benton, Wisc.

It was not enough for the zealous Italian-American to be pastor of several scattered rural parishes, director of the Dominican Sisters, board member of a college, superintendent and teacher in a girls' academy. The priest also answered many requests to preach, or give When other priests came to the parish missions.

But on a stormy February day north country, Father Mazzuchelli was assigned to minister to the in 1864, word came that an old people in the valley of the Missis- parishioner was close to death and sippi, from St. Louis to St. Paul, contrary to his usual independence including miners and farmers, was calling for the priest. Mazzumany of the latter Irish immi- chelli hurried to him without suffigrants, pleased to re-christen their cient clothing for the storm, and itinerant pastor "Father Matthew contracted pneumonia, dying Feb. 23, 1864, at age 57.

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MRS. ROSEMARY daSilva, since 1985 a teacher at St. Joseph's School, New Bedford, has been named principal of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel School, also in New Bedford.

Msgr. Luiz Mendonca, pastor of M 1. Carmel parish, indicated his pleasure at finding "a dedicated and capable administrator." Sister Michaelinda Plante, RS M, associate superintendent of schools, noted that Mrs. daSilva has completed two years of a Catholic School Leadership Program sponsored by the diocesan Department of Education.

The new principal holds a bachelor's degree in English and completed elementary education certification requirements in 1985. She is currently completing work on a 'master's degree in elementary school administration.

Schools Continued from Page One curriculum will be integrated, not separated by subject, and that it will be meaningful and challenging'; that learning will reflect student interests and needs, celebrate cultural diversity and honor individual dignity; and that educators at all levels, students, parents, businesses and the general community will participate in curriculum design and implementation.

Sister Plante said that periodic reports will be made on the progress of the middle school concept and that it is hoped that other diocesan schools will join the pilot group.

Msgr. Annunziato dies' Continued from Page One in the Baltimore archdiocese, will also be concelebrants, as will many brother priests of the Fall River diocese.

The beloved pa.stor was born Oct. 10, 1931, the son of the late Michael and Angelina (Greco) Annunziato. He was a Taunton native, graduating :from the former Msgr. Coyle High School in the city. He attended Providence College, then prepared for the priesthood at St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore and the North American College in Rome.

Ordained in Rome Dec. 16, 1956,

by Archbishop Martin O'Connor, the then Father Annunziato was parochial vicar at St. Mary's parish, North Attleboro, and St. Francis of Assisi, New Bedford. In

1974 he was named administrator of St. Bernard parish, Assonet, and from 1977 to 1981 he was pastor of St. James parish, New Bedford, going to St. Mary's, Mansfield, at that time.

Last March 7, in a surprise announcement at what was expected to be a routine parish visitation Mass, Bishop Sean O'Malley, alluding to the day's Gospel, announced "a transfiguration at St. Mary's." With that, diocesan chancellor Msgr. John J. Oliveira came from the sacristy to present monsignorial robes to Father Annunziato as the congregation "rose as one, clapping and weeping for joy," as the Anchor for March 12 described the moment.

Msgr. Annunziato served the diocese in many capacities. includ-

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of Sanctity, Kathryn E. Wrobel, retreat director and Catholic educator. The Gospel of Matthew: A Messiah and His Kingdom, Richard F. Kless, Providence College. Women's Spirituality, Kathleen Killion-Legg, Bishop Feehan High School.

Many Pilgrims, One Family of God, Rev. John J. Oliveira, St. Anthony of Padua parish, Fall River. AndHe Taught Them in Parables, Patricia Pasternak, DRE, St. Thomas More parish, Somerset. Measure for Measure: Music That Lasts, Linda Reid, St. Thomas Church, Providence. Call to Be Beloved, Dr. Elaine Scully, RSM, Providence College.

Workshop II (1:15-2:05 p.m.)

Desiring a Deeper Relationship with the Lord Who Loves Me, Jane E. Arsenault, St. Cecilia's School,' Pawtucket, Rl. Seeing is Believing: A Sacramental Approach to Life, Dr. Ernest Colla mati, Regis College, Weston. Prayer in Motion: Spiritual Fitness for A dults, Dr. Susan Collamati, Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro..

The Right Choice, Marian Desrosiers, diocesan Pro-Life Apostolate. Clowning: A Way to the Heart, Sister Sheila Durante, assistant superintendent of elementary schools, Providence diocese.

Sadness andDespair: Understanding and Intervening in the Psychological Hurt of the Student, Robert Fournier, Catholic Social Services of Cape Cod. How to Talk So Kids WillListen/How to Listen So Kids Will Talk, Peg Hannigan, Harwich Middle School. Awesome or Some What?, Sister Theresa Sparrow, RSM, St: Julie Billiart parish, N. Dartmouth. Prejudice and the Danger of Non-Involvement, James Wilcox, Durfee High School, Fall River.

The Wonder Years, Lisa Kelly, Office for Youth Ministry. Embracing Our Multicultural Church, Sister Ann McKenna, RS M, Holy Trinity School, Central Falls, RI. Be Comfortable with Evangelization: You A re A Iready Doing It!, Judith Moniz, Paulist trained in evangelization.

Spirituality and Creativity for the Catechist, Irene Murphy, Benziger Publishing. The Church's Best-Kept Secret: Catholic Evangelization. Rev. Robert A. Oliveira, diocesan continuing formation director. Paths to God. Sister Christopher O'Rourke. RS M. St. Anne's School, Fall River.

Flesh and Blood Heroes of the Old Testament: The David and Jonathan Story, Dr. Patrick Reid, Providence College. Proclaiming Good News: The Partnership of Evangelization and Catechesis, Sister Nancy Sheridan, diocese of Manchester, NH. Sometimes It Seems More "Take" Than "Give," Kathleen Simpson, Taunton Catholic Middle School.

Workshop III (2:15-3:05 p.m,) The Master Teacher and Me: Creative Asl Can Be. Jane E. Arsenault, St. Cecilia's School, Pawtucket, RI. Freedom With Prayer, Margie Copeland, coordinator of confirmation and youth ministry, O.L. Angels parish, Fall River. The Right Choice, Marian Desrosiers, diocesan Pro-Life Apostolate. How to Talk So Kids Will Listen/How to Listen So Kids - Will Talk, Peg Hannigan, Harwich MiddIe School. Lesson Planning for Beginning Teachers, Dr. Doris Thibault, religious education coordinator.

ing as chaplain for the Daughters of Isabella in North Attleboro and the New Bedford Guild for the Blind. He directed both the former St. Mary's Home, New Bedford, and St. Vincent's Home, Fall River, and was among priests giving PreCana marriage preparation conferences in New Bedford in the 1970s.

He was an advocate for the diocesan marriage tribunal, a member of the diocesan Presbyteral Council and dean of the Attleboro deanery of the diocese.

Msgr. Annunziato is survived by a sister, Mrs. George Oldfield. who cared for him in his last months. and by brothers John and Amalio Annunziato. in addition to Father Michael Annunziato.

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God's Generosity to Women. Karen Varieur. St. Raphael Academy. Could I TEMPT You to Attend This Lecture?

Dr. Wilfred Varieur. family psychotherapist. Prejudice and the Danger of NonInvolvement. James Wilcox. Durfee High School. Fall River. Go and Make Disciples: A Vision of Evangelization for All Catholics. Jane Wilcox. Paulist trained in evangelization.

Some People A re Hard to Love, Arlen« McNamee, MSPCC southeastern re, gional director. Ugh! Surviving the Jun· ior High Years, Jeanne Nadeau, Franl Lucca, St. Dominic's parish, Swansea All About Angels. Paulette Normandin St. Louis de France parish, Swansea Treasures Given, Treasures toBe Shared' The Catechism of the Catholic Church Rev. Robert A. Oliveira, diocesan con, tinuing formation director.

Flesh and Blood Heroes of the 011/ Testament: The David and Jonathall Story, Dr. Patrick Reid, Providence Col· lege. Proclaiming Good News: The Part· nership of Evangelization and Cateche· sis, Sister Nancy Sheridan, diocese of Manchester, NH. A Wealth of Creativ,~ A'ctivities, Elizabeth Sinwell, Sadlie . consultant. Seeing is Believing: A Sac· ramental Approach to Life, Dr. Ernest Collamati, Regis College, Weston.

Information on registering fo: religious education day may b: obtained from parishes or from the Catholic Education Center, 678-2828.

Vatican contacts with China grow VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Tht Vatican and China have had ar increasing number of"indirect con, tacts" aimed at improving rela.. tions, the Vatican's spokesmar. said.

The Holy See appreciates th,: desire shown by the Beijing government to normalize relations, said Joaquin Navarro-Valls, th,: spokesman. .

Chi,na severed ties with the'Vatican in 1958.

In reporting on Navarro-Vall:: recent statement, Vatican Radi) reminded listeners of remarks made by Pope John Paul II tW) months earlier during a visit t) Macerata, Italy, birthplace of Jesuit Father Matteo Ricci, a 161tcentury missionary to China.

The pope prayed for the Ch nese Catholic community, "which despite many grave difficultie:;, continues to give a shining exarrpie of fidelity to Christ and to the church."

He said he had a "strong desin" to visit China and ~dded: "How I hope that the waiting time will t·e short."

Government officials in Beijing, reacting to the .pope's remark:;, said a papal visit would be impo:,sible before Vatican-Chinese dipl(lmatic relations were restored.

The Chinese government repeatedly has insisted that renewed ties would be impossible unless It e Vatican cuts its diplomatic relcltions with Taiwan, which the Bei- , jing government considers to be a political subdivision of China, not an independent nation.

While the apostolic nunciatul'e remains open in Taiwan, the pOlle has not assigned a nuncio to tl.e post since 1979; the embassy is headed by a charge d'affaires.

Preliminary contacts bet wet n the Vatican and China regarding diplomatic relations reported.y were suspended for a"time after tile 1989 crackdown on the pro-demo~­ racy movement in China. ,

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By Christopher Carstens There she was, as pretty as a 15-year-old girl could be. She wore a striking new dress, burgundy velvet, one that made her look even more like a young woman as she sat in the second row of chairs during the wedding.

With great dignity and compo·sure she looked on, calmly, not making a sound as she wept. The simple eye makeup, so carefully applied only an hour ago, ran down her face. Surely this was the s~cond saddest day of her life, sitting here and watching her mother get married again.

The sad.dest day, of course, had to be when she found out her mom and dad were getting divorced.

That wound in her heart had only started mending in the three years since then.

But all along she'd imagined that someday, somehow, her parents would see that it was all a mistake. They'd remember the good times that came before all the bad ones, and they'd get back together - it could have happened.

Until today. Now her mother is ·getting married again. Now there's · no going back to the way life is supposed to be for a kid..

She wept bitter tears and was embarrassep by them, But she was so brave to be there at all.'

After the wedding she'~as angry.

Angry at her mother, angry at her father, who somehow should have been able to keep it from happening, but mostly, deeply, bitterly angry at this new man who was taking this special place in her mother's life.

"He thinks he's my dad, but he's not."

No he isn't, and he doesn't ever have to be. She already has a dad, and she has no intention of ever giving him up..

Across the cOJ.lntry, millions of kids every year find themselves in exactly this situation. While everybody worries about the little

kids, the adults expect teens to accept the situation with "maturity," like somehow being in junior high or high school makes watching your family fall apart less painful.

Now and then there's a marriage that's so obviously painful for everybody involved that to the teenagers involved the divorce seems like the best thing that could happen.

But that's not the usual case.

Mostly, kids want their parents to get back together, even when the breakup ended years of bitter arguing and sometimes frightening fights between the parents.

It can be even tougher after one of those "friendly" breakups, where all the hurt and pain are under the surface and the parents are calm and polite about getting their divorce. Kids 'c:an't help wondering: "They're being so nice to each other. Why couldn't they just make up?"

She'll never understand why her mom and dad got divorced. Too many of the. real reasons are hidden away in events she'll never hear about.

He'll never be her dad. He'll be himself. He may be a pretty decent fellow. She may even decide she likes him - eventually. But that still won't make him her dad. She already has a father, and she's loyal to' hiin; even if he isn't perfect.

This new marriage will either last or it won't, based upon the efforts of the newly married partners. She didn't choose it, but she couldn't prevent it either.

All she can do is love both of her parents. She can hope and pray for eveyone's happiness. And she can try to forgive him for not being her dad.

Your comments are welcomed

by Dr. Christopher Carstens, c/o Catholic News Service, 3211 Fourth St., N.E., Washington, D.C. 20017

I blame you for the moonlit sky And the dream that died With the eagle's flight I blame you for the moonlit nights When I wonder why Are the seas still dry Don't blame this sleeping satellite Did we fly to the moon too soon Did we squander the chance In the rush of the race' The reason we chase is lost in romance And still we try To justify the waste For a taste of man's greatest adventure Have we got what it takes to advance Did we peak too soon If the world is so green Then why does it scream under a blue moon We wonder why The Earth's sacrificed For the price of its greatest treasure And when we shoot for the stars What a giant step Have we got what it takes To carry the weight of this concept Or pass it by Like a shot in the dark Miss the mark with a sense of adventure Written by Tasmin Archer/John Seck/John Hughes Sung

by Tasmin Archer, (c) 1992 by EMI Records, 1993 SBK Records 'SLEEPING Satellite" is Tasmin Archer's. debut, chart hit. I rellllyli,k,e, thisgro,up's clear; strong, female lead. The song's lyrics present metaphors and images that seem to refer to Earth. What is unclear is who is being addressed with. the song's message.

Perhaps it is all of humankind as we stand on the edge of the. 21st century. The song appears to ask us ,a series of questions:

Is this "sleeping satellite'~ that , ,~e.call our ,ho,me going to surDLvlve,h'ow weJtirea:t' it?J Jiill::J ibd Can we "justify the 'waste'" that often occurs as we seek a "taste of man's greatest adventure?"

"Have we got what it takes to advance" as a society toward responsible care of the planet?

Or ~'did we peak too soon" in our scientific growth, leaving moral and ethical concerns behind?

Whatever the song's intent, surely these are questions we must face. No matter what our age, each of us has a choice in how we live each day and how we respect Earth.

For example, did' you put that empty soda can or bottle in your family's recycle bin? Or, if you were out, did you bring it home instead,' of throwing it into some unspecified trash can, or throw it on to the ground?

Further, if your family has no established system for recycling, have you brought this possibility up to the rest of the family? You could volunteer to set up a system, with some consultation on where and how the system will be implemented.

Maybe you could observe how resources are used in your school. Do the kitchen and lunchroom facilities utilize as many reusable materials as possible?

Who sees that the lights are off when not in use? If your school owns vehicles, do they get good gas mileage? Raising such concerns can become part of a dialogue between you and school authorities.

I n fact, with the start of school, why not volunteer to join or initiate a student~faculty' group that leads others in improving how people trea't the environment in and around your school? If that isn't possible, how about creating an Earthc'are project with your parish youth group?

When considering Earth's future, this is most clear: Whether Earth, survives' as a !iel}\lt\·fJ.!ljbome f.or .hJ.!rnal1 ki..tH!~ .111 '{b1 .;vLJI.:H1J I'}l I.Jjl1joi· :l..J11'J IS n t up to someone else. t depends on you!

Sure, you can turn your head and pretend not to care how "Earth's sacrificed for the price of its greatest treasure." Or, together, we can make another choice. What will you do?

Your comments are welcomed

by Charlie Martin, RR 3, Box 182, Rockport" IN 47635,

5 million suffer post-abortion woes SPRINGFIELD, III. (eNS) At least 5 million u.s. women have suffered severe post-abortion trauma, according to a new quarterly publication that will seek to summarize the latest research on the impact of abortion'. .

The Post-Abortion' Review is published by the Springfield-based Elliot Institute for Social Sciences Research, founded in 1987 to perform original research and education on the impact of abortion on women, men, siblings and society. . "Pro-choice groups continue to· hide the fact that at least 20 percent of women suffer post-abortion psychological problems by describing this problem as occurring among only a 'minority' of women," said David Reardon, institute director. "While 20 percent of women is technically a' ..4

'minority,' it is heartless-to dismiss the suffering and pain of 5 million women as insignificant."

In addition to research summar.ies, The Post-Abortion Review will include firsthand testimonies on the impact of abortion and other information related fo post-abortion education.

Topics in upcoming issues include abortion and the feminization of poverty, teens and abortion, informed consent issues, the problem of coerced and forced abortions, and results of two Elliot Institute surveys.

A free copy of the Post-Abortion Review is available by sending a self-addressed stamped (52 cents) envelope to The Elliot Institute, P.O. Box 9079, Springfield, II 62791.

CO~TEST ~IN~ER: Megan Orr, a student at the High School for Creative and m Ph~ladelp~ia: won first place in a poster contest sponsored by The Christop hers WIth thIS ~rawmg deplctmg a teenage volunteer in a soup kitchen. The plight of the homeless and envIronmental problems led the list of issues that concerned the nearly 2,000 young people who entered the contest, themed "You Can Make a Difference." (CNS/Christophers photo) PerformlI~g Art.s

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• THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Sept. 3,1993

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St. Vincent's gains Cape connection

FLOATING BY: Dominican Academy students, on a float created by Sister Gertrude Gaudette, OP, were part of the Fall River Celebrates America Parade Aug. 15. (Gaudette photo)

Catholic school students produce TV shows FORT WAYNE, Ind. (CNS)Junior high school students at Precious Blood School in Fort Wayne are learning about television production through hands-on experience in their own studio.

Sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade students not only come up with show ideas and video talent, but they run the electronic equipment used to create the programs at the Sister Jean Perry Communications Center, named for the school principal.

The students prod uce five-to 10minute "school shorts" that are broadcast twice a week on the local public broadcasting station.

They have produced programs on nearby botanical gardens and a nature preserve, a high school band,

sports events, an arts and music festival, and interviews with political figures'.

A recent show featured Trinity Lutheran Church while another centered on law enforcement and the fight against drug use. Other shows have addressed subjects ranging from the American Indian experience to local high school football.

"On most of these shows, the kids came up with the ideas," said Barb Roberts, broadcast teacher at Precious Blood School. "They learn with practice. Each student will take a hand at the various positions, such as cameraman, director, monitoring sound and script writing."

Other community groups can

use the equipment at the center, which is funded in part by a cable TV grant. The grants are financed by a small monthly fee paid by cable TV subscribers to encourage communication, education and cultural values.

Stonehill College The Office of Continuing Education at Stonehill College, North Easton, is offering a new bookkeeping/ accounting principles certificate program, with classes beginning the week of Sept. 13. The program will provide knowledge of accounting and payroll practices, accounts payable and receivable and types of computer systems available to the profession.

It is recommended for bookkeepers or data entry clerks seekingadvancement within an accounting department, new or small business owners without financial background who have bookkeeping and payroll responsibilities and other interested persons.

The certificate program requires completion of six courses: introduction to accounting I and II, accounting for cash, payroll accounting, automated accounting systems and LOTUS 1-2-3.

For information contact the college's community and professional education office at 230-1258.

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STUDIO STUDENTS: Students at Precious Blood School in Fort Wayne, Ind., get hands-on experience in electronic communications as they videotape a show during a class in broadcasting. (CNS photo)

Eileen Gleeson of Portsmouth, RI, has been appointed to the fulltime faculty at Salve Regina University, Newport, RI, as instructor of nursing. Ms. Gleeson previously served on the university's parttime faculty in both the nursing and health services administration programs.

A graduate of Somerville Hospital School of Nursing, Ms. Gleeson earned a bachelor of science degree in nursing from Salve Regina, completed courses in nursing administration at Boston University and received a master of science degree in health services administration at Salve Regina.

Ms. Gleeson was clinical director for Charlton Memorial Hospital and patient care coordinator at the former Union-Truesdale Hospital, both in Fall River.

St. Vincent's Home, Fall River, is looking forward to the establishment of a Cape Cod Chapter of Friends of St. Vincent's.

This effort had its origins with Mary Belesti of Pocasset, who read about St. Vincent's in the Anchor about a year ago and has been spreading the word on Cape Cod about the home ever since.

In December she organized preparation of Christmas gifts for children in St. Vincent's DePaul emergency shelter program, and more recently she hosted an information session about St. Vincent's at the Pocasset home of her sister, Patricia Thoma.

About 40 Cape residents attended the session, at which they viewed a video on the work of St. Vincent's Home, received agency brochures and newsletters, and talked with the home's executive director, Father Joseph Costa.

A formal meeting is now being organized for establishment of the Cape Cod Chapter, and Father Costa invites others to consider hosting a gathering to discuss St. Vincent's services for children. For information contact him or Jeanette Lambert at St. Vincent's, 679-8511.

Readers Wanted Ann Clark, St. Vincent's reading instructor, is seeking volunteers to give 45 minutes a week helping a 10- to 16-year-old boy read.

Vol unteers will work one-onone with the same student each week, using materials and direction from Ms. Clark.

"Reading-and being read toisn't something these boys grew up with. Just getting them to read more is important," said Ms. Clark, adding "Many still like to be read stories aloud. Volunteers who find themselves doing that will have a very appreciative audience."

For information about becoming a volunteer reader or to learn about' other ways to work directly with St. Vincent's children, contact Jeff Chace at 679-8511, ext.

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Activities Seven residents of St. Vincent's Home'sSweeney(boysages 10-13) and McAuley (boys and girls ages 6-10) units earned cash prizes in a Fall River-wide student poster con-

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test which called for paintings illustrating the imp Jrtance ofclean water.

In the elementary school category, two St. Vin;ent's students won the cash equi'lalent of a $75 savings bond for second place finishes; two won fourth-place prizes of $25 and five earned $10 fifthplace prizes.

The contest was sponsored by Operations Manag,~ment International, Inco which operates the city's wastewater tr~atment plant.

Thirty boys from the Sweeney and Cronin (boys a!:es 13-18) units participated in a recent Goodwill Sports Challenge at Brandeis University. The afternoon of sports competition closed with an all-star exhibition basketball game featuring former Bostor Celtic ·M.L. Carr and New England Patriots Scott Lockwood, Sam Gash, Brent Williams, Leonard Russell and Rob McGovern.

St. Vincent's oVin basketball team, the Saints, ht Id a spaghetti supper and awards ceremony at the close of their season in June.

The Saints reached I he semi-finals for the 1992-93 CYO season; then losing a squeaker, 69-68, to Sacred Heart, Fall River.

The Cronin Quarterly, published

by Cronin Unit beys under the direction of Kathryn Poulin, has come a long way since its first issue in November. It is now published monthly and contains news about each unit, original artwork, stories and poetry, contests, cartoons, creative writing e ~ercises and commentary on national issues.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Sept. 3,1993

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Due to limited space and also because notices of strictly parish affairs normally appear In a parish's own bulletin, we are lorced to limit Items to events 01 general' Interest. Also, we do not normally carry' notices of lundralslng activities, which may be advertised at our regular rates, obtainable Irom The Anchor business office, telephone (508) 675-7151.

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ST. MARY, N. ATTLEBORO The Sunday healing service scheduled to be held Sept. 5 has been rescheduled to 6 p.m. Sept. 9.

NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING Couple to Couple League will sponsor series of four monthly classes on natural family planning beginning 2 to 4 p.m. Sept. 12 at St. Mary's parish center, Mansfield. For information or preregistration: Jon. and Maureen Howey, 339-4730.

A Natural Family Planning course will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Sept. 7 in the education classroom of Clemence Hall at St. Anne's Hospital and w.ill continue at the same time the first Tuesdays of October, November and December with Rita Quinn as instructor. Further information: Diane Santos, 674-5741, ext. 2480.

DCCW, CAPE Diocesan Council of Catholic Women District 5 open meeting 2 p.m.

Sept. 12, Holy Trinity Church Hall, Rt. 28, W. Harwich. Mrs. Bernard Wahle will speak on "The Universal Church."

O.L VICTORY, CENTERVILLE Ultreya 7:30 tonight, R.E. center.

First Saturday rosary and act of consecration to Immaculate Heart of Mary 8:35 a.m. (before 9 a.m.

Mass) tomorrow.

DCCW, DISTRICT I, FR A presidents' meeting at 7 p.m.

Sept. 9 at Holy Cross Church, Fall River. will open the season for District I. Diocesan Council of Catholic Women. All affiliated guild presidents or alternates and all district officers and district committee

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CHARISMATIC PRAYER MEETING Regional meeting of prayer groups will be held Sept. 8, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, Seekonk, with 7 p.m. Mass celebrated by Bishop O'Malley and rosary at 6:30 p.m.

VINCENTIANS, FR District Council meeting Sept. 7, St. Anthony of Padua Church, FR. ST. LOUIS de FRANCE, SWANSEA The Upper Room Rosary. Prayer Cell meets 7:30 p.m. Sept. 7, religious education center; all welcome.

CAPE COD FOR JESUS A gathering of Cape Cod Charismatic prayer groups, including a Mass celebrated by Bishop O'Malley, will be held 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. Sept.

II at the Cape Cod Melody Tent, Hyannis. Program includes keynote by author and lecturer Rev. George A. Maloney, SJ, of Seal Beach, CA; discussion of youth evangelization

by Rev. Stephen A. Fernandes of Christ the King parish, Mashpee and youth witnesses; healing prayer with Barbara Wright, evangelist and healing minister from Providence, RI; and music. Free admission; all welcome.

SACRED HEARTS ACADEMY ALUMNAE The alumnae association of the former Sacred Hearts Academy in Fall River will hold a social 3 to 5 p.m. Sept. 12 at St. James Convent, Nanaquaket, RI. Light refreshments will be served. All fprmer students, faculty and family and friends are welcome.

ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON First Friday Mass at Fitzsimmons Arms on Olney Street will resume at 9 a.m. each First Friday. Parish Vincentians report a grateful thank you from Sacred Hearts Father Michael Annunziato, a parish native now serving in South Texas, for clothes shipped to him for distribution to needy parishioners.

SECULAR FRANCISCANS, W. HARWICH St. Francis of Peace fraternity meeting 2 p.m. Sept. 12, Holy Trinity Church, W. Harwich preceded by I:30 p.m. rosary for end ofabortion.

Mass will be offered by Father Cornelius Kelly, OFM, who will speak on St. Clare. The liturgy Will be followed by a meeting. Newcomers welcome. Further information: 394-4094.

RETROUV AILLE Program to heal and renew troubled marriages will be held Sept. 24 to 26 in Milford; information: (603) 672-5676.

SEPARATED/DIVORCED, CATHOLICS, NB Support group meeting 7 to 9 p.m.

Sept. 8, Family Life Center, N. Dartmouth; video featuring Paula Ripple on "The Impact of Divorce."

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members are asked to attend. DCCW , moderator Very Rev. James F. Lyons. will speak.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK Reception for former pastor Father Thomas Rita Sept. 12. Vincentians meet after 10 a.m. Mass Sept.

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CHRIST THE KING, MASHPEE Vincentians request for Sept. 4-5 food pantry drive: canned meats, fish, fruits, vegetables and soups; pasta and spaghetti sauce; peanut butter, jam, powdered milk. Fall Scripture study of Paul's "Captivity Letters" will begin Sept. 12; information: Alice or Millard Cramp, 477-3672.

LEGION OF MARY Active and auxiliary Legion of Mary members are invited to take part in procession at celebration of feast of Our Lady of Angels at I p.m.

Sept. 6 at St. Mary's Church, Fair. haven. Preceding the procession, Bishop Sean O'Malley will offer Mass at 10 a.m. He will also participate in the procession.

Adorers needed from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at exposition of Blessed' Sacrament each Monday at St. Joseph's parish, New Bedford.

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9.66

148,296

15.08

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Admissions Inpatient Days Emergency Room Visits Other Outpatient Visits Total Outpatient Visits

5,1I7,297

15.95

37,352,267

15.79

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15.63

50,410,802

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1,876,091

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Ambulatory SlIrgery

2,022,407

16.97

Total Surgeries

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15.57

Total Expenses ($)

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Dr. Elders WASHINGTON (CNS)- U.S. surgeon general nominee Dr. Joycelyn Elders has apologized to the president of lhe National C:::onference of Catholic Bishops for past public remarks that had been described as "contemptuous" of the Catholic Church and its pro-life stance.

In correspondence released Aug. 31 by the bishops' national Office for Media Relations, Ms. Elders said she "never meant to malign or blaspheme the Catholic Church."

"If my statements have caused a'ny offense, I sincerely apologize," she said.

"I abhor bigotry in all its forms....

I do not consider myself a bigot, and I regret any impression that I may have left to the contrary," she wrote.

Her letter, dated Aug. 5, was released along with a July 14 letter from Archbishop William H. Keeler of Baltimore, NCCD president, to President Clinton criticizing her views and a Aug. 5 response from the president to the archbishop.

Archbishop Keeler, in his letter to Clinton, said he objected strongly to remarks by Ms. Elders in which she had accused abortion opponents of having no concern for life beyond the womb and dismissed the Catholic position on abortion as that of a "celibate and male-dominated church."

"Her suggestion that those who find abortion morally repugnant are not interested in life beyond the womb flies in the face of your own recognition ... of the church's many contributions to life at all stages," Archbishop Keeler told Clinton.

"While we certainly disagree on some matters of public policy," he added, "I would expect that those men and women who serve in senior positions in your administration would at least recognize the manifold contributions of the church on behalf of the poor and the, suffering."

apologi~es He said Dr. Elders' dismissal of church teaching on abortion "is contemptuous and implies that ~atho!ics qo not hal1e a right to contribute to the debate on this issue."

In his response Clinton described Ms. Elders as "a religious person' herself' who "respects the deeply, held beliefs of others."

"I know that she will bring the full measure of that respect to her position as surgeon general of the United States," he said.

Ms. Elders also assured Archbishop Keeler that she respects the church's right to engage in the national debate and is open to "constructive dialogue."

In a news release accompanying release of the three letters, the bishops' Office for Media Relations said: "Since the bishops' conference does not endorse or oppose nominees for appointive office, this correspondence was not previously released. Due to the growing public controversy, it was decided that it should now be on the public record."

Asked if Archbishop Keeler was satisfied by the Elders and Clinton responses, bishops' media relations spokesman William Ryan told Catholic News Service that the archbishop had no further comment and thought the letters could speak for themselves.

Ms. Elders was director of the Arkansas Department of Health when Clinton was governor of Arkansas. She resigned that post in mid-July after Clinton nominated her as U.S. surgeon general.

The Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee backed her nomination 13-4 in late July.

A floor vote by the Senate was delayed until after Labor Day. Among organizations that had protested Ms. Elders' remarks were the Knights of Columbus and the Catholic. League for Religious and Civil Rights.